Cancel infinite loop execution in jsfiddle

Question

When you get an infinite loop in jsfiddle in Chrome, your only choice (that I know of) is to close the tab. Of course, this means you lose all your work in the current wind

Answer 1

In case others are stuck after reading the other answers, here's what worked for me (Chrome, Mac). For me the JSFiddle tab was 'stuck' but the rest of Chrome responsive. I had the JavaScript Console open on the Resources pane, but it was unresponsive too. Reloading the page in this state didn't help because JSFiddle would give me the script before I got anything at all.

In the end this worked for me; maybe it will help you too...

• While the page is unresponsive, go to Chrome > Preferences > Privacy and disable JavaScript.
• Wait for page to die (about 4 or 5 minutes for me); the sad face icon comes up in that tab.
• Hit the back button. It should look like JSFiddle is loading, but it won't because funnily enough JSFiddle needs JavaScript just to render a page.
• View > Developer > View source
• My script, only slightly mangled, was sitting there all innocent like in a div called 'panel_js'.
• Highlight, copy, breathe again, learn lesson.

Answer 2

I had file stuck in a loop and would freeze up the dashboard on JSFiddle as well.

• The only way I could clear was to disable JavaScript in the preferences tab while I had a New Fiddle page open in a different Chrome tab.
• Then navigate to All Fiddles.
• Delete the Fiddle and then it would give a 404 error.
• Turn on the JavaScript and reload the Dashboard.
• Was able to continue on making and editing fiddles after that.