Comments on: Break out of infinite alert() popups!

By: Howard Yeend

Howard Yeend — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:15:26 +0000

very true. I suggest installing the extension and using console.log for your own debugging.

By: David

David — Tue, 25 May 2010 10:53:21 +0000

If I hit Enter to submit a form or do some action and that sends me into the “infinite” alert loop, then holding Enter will most likely cause me to redo the action after I’ve gone through all the alerts. Then I will have to go through them again…. And what if I’m trying to find out where/why my code is looping infinitely and causing my browser to freeze? At that point, we can assume that if I’ve found it by putting the alert in the right spot, that alert will literally loop infinitely. I need some mechanism to defeat the modality of the alert and stop the code. Generally, closing the browser (browser tab in this case) is the only option.

By: Del

Del — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:19:39 +0000

Chrome has it’s own DOM inspector / Profiler etc built it, so you can write to the console in chrome too. Although, Firebug has so many features that i can’t quite let go of yet.

Nice Post H.

By: Fortunat

Fortunat — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:44:43 +0000

Great trick :D thanks for the tip!
Though simply holding Enter has always worked for me… I wonder why everyone insists on clicking their mouse to death, when you can just hold Enter…
Just a though, of course. Your trick pwns either way ;-)

By: Ms2ger

Ms2ger — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:05:32 +0000

And say that Opera’s got that for ages…

By: Howard Yeend

Howard Yeend — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:40:40 +0000

I did say pretty much that in the post, you know ;-P

(edit: but yes, your solution negates the “script won’t execute” problem I mentioned)

edit:

actually, I prefer:

if(!console) {
    // provide some rough kind of console behaviour
    var console = function(){
        var my = {
            log: function(stuff) {
                document.write(stuff+"
");
                // (or alert if you prefer)
            }
        };
        return my;
    }();
}

By: Howard Yeend

Howard Yeend — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:30:09 +0000

have changed to 50 – sorry if I killed your browser ;0) Thanks for letting me know.

By: Howard Yeend

Howard Yeend — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:25:35 +0000

Hmm, how do you close tabs via the keyboard on a mac?

By: kpobococ

kpobococ — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:00:35 +0000

Latest Chrome version has a pretty decent developing tools. They even have stuff that firebug does not have yet.

By: kpobococ

kpobococ — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:59:25 +0000

Oh, come on, stop living in the stone age:
var mylog = function(whatever) {
if (window.console && console.log) console.log(whatever);
}