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Is there a way to escape a loop like the one below without closing the browser by terminating it process?
WARNING: Don’t run the code below. Running this code will throw your browser in an infinite loop of alerts.
<html><body onload="while(true)alert('Hello')"></body></html>
Some browsers will disallow this from happening in the first place.
Whenever this does happens to me, I do my best to do the following key sequence quickly:
Which will escape the loop and close the window/tab, but shouldn’t terminate the browser.
EDIT I shouldn’t say it escapes the loop. It closes the window which prevents that page from executing any more javascript.