In Chrome, how many redirects are “too many”?

Question

Often, when a script has a redirect loop we get an error in Google Chrome that says

Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redir

Answer 1

Tested on Win 7 64bit

• Chrome 64bit Version: 49 ↷ 80.0.3987.132 (Official Build), 19 redirects
  
• Chrome Canary 64bit, Version: 49 ↷ 88.0.4306.2 (Official Build), 19 redirects
  
• Firefox 32-bit version: 43 ↷ 74, 20 redirects
  
• Firefox 64-bit version: 43 ↷ 74, 20 redirects
  
  • Firefox 64-bit 67.0.4, endless loop!
    
• Opera version: 28, ↷ 65.0.3467.62 19 redirects
  
• Safari version: 5.1.7, 16 redirects
  
• IE version: 8 11 redirects via webpagetest.org
  
• IE version: 9 121 redirects via webpagetest.org
  
• IE version: 10 121 redirects via webpagetest.org
  
• IE version: 11.48.17134.0 110 redirects
  
• Microsoft Edge version: 42.17134.1.0 20 redirects
  
• Google Nexus 5, Samsung Galaxy S4 ⇄ S9, Galaxy Tab 4, 19 redirects