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From	Xox <etacx18@etaoin.com>
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Subject	Shutting script down when leaving page
Date	Mon, 27 Jan 2014 03:25:17 +0000 (UTC)
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Let us suppose I have a page, a.html, which contains a
script which constantly invokes itself or is invoked --
it's running not necessarily continuously but at regular
intervals, or maybe it is looping.  In any case it's
active.  Now the viewer goes to an entirely different
page using the same window/tab, so a.html has disappeared.
It seems reasonable to assume that the script would stop
running.  But is this in fact known to be the case across 
all contemporary browsers?  The reason I ask is that I 
observed some CPU usage which seemed to indicate that
something was going on after the page had been left.
The script I am dealing with could be costly in terms
of CPU and if it continues to run I should shut it
down explicitly when the browser leaves the page.

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Shutting script down when leaving page Xox <etacx18@etaoin.com> - 2014-01-27 03:25 +0000
  Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-27 18:08 +1100
    Re: Shutting script down when leaving page "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-01-27 10:23 +0100
    Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-27 11:21 +0100
      Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-27 10:41 +0000
        Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Xox <etacx18@etaoin.com> - 2014-01-27 19:43 +0000
          Re: Shutting script down when leaving page "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-01-27 20:53 +0100
            Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Xox <etacx18@etaoin.com> - 2014-01-27 20:52 +0000
          Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-28 01:20 +0100
            Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-28 01:24 +0100
            Re: Shutting script down when leaving page "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2014-01-27 18:44 -0800
            Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Xox <etacx18@etaoin.com> - 2014-01-28 05:03 +0000
              Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-28 11:33 +0100
                Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Xox <etacx18@etaoin.com> - 2014-01-28 19:40 +0000
            Re: Shutting script down when leaving page "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-01-28 09:31 +0100
      Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-01-27 21:37 +0100
        Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-28 00:10 +0100
          Re: Shutting script down when leaving page Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-01-28 00:54 +0100

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