Browser waits for ajax call to complete even after abort has been called (jQuery)

Question

I have some (potentially) long-running ajax calls that I would like to abort if the user navigates to another page. The following jQuery code calls abort on all pending XMLH

Answer 1

Are you sure that you are using an asychronous request? If the browser blocks during the entire request, you are using a synchronous request (async parameter is false)