When using setInterval, if I switch tabs in Chrome and go back, the slider goes crazy catching up

Question

I have a jQuery slider on my site and the code going to the next slide is in a function called nextImage. I used setInterval to run my function on a timer, and it does exact

Answer 1

If you are using Soh Tanaka's image slider then just add this...to solve your Google Chrome issue:

$(".image_reel").stop(true, true).fadeOut(300).animate({ left: -image_reelPosition}, 500 ).fadeIn(300);

Take note of the .stop() function. Ignore the fading in and out stuff, that's what I used on my version

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