Google Chrome On Mac Hangs When Clicking Links Quickly

[alanwsmith]

Details:

• I'm seeing Google Chrome hang on my Mac when clicking around links quickly.

• The issue isn't happening on Firefox.

• I'm using code straight from the example

• I made a repo that reproduces the issue. It has twenty or so example files with cross links between them.

• I've been using tower_livereload for probably a year and I don't think this has been happening until recently.

[leotaku]

Hey thanks for the report, unfortunately I'm currently extremely short on time. I will hopefully be able look into this in a few weeks.

[alanwsmith]

no worries. also just to mention in there's some info about my version of chrome and mac os in the example repo I set up. If there's any way I can help, just let me know.

[leotaku]

I've looked into this now, and I have been able to reproduce the issue as you have described it.

I think I have also figured out the problem. Chrome seems to "remember" the connections across page changes. So if you send a request using fetch and then change the page, the request keeps running in the background. We use long-poll connections to be notified of restarts so if you quickly click on a bunch of links, this causes a lot of simultaneous background connections, which seemingly locks up Chrome. Pretty weird if you ask me.

Expect a fix in a few days.