Long pause between blogs here but busy life = slow blog.
In this blog, I will discuss how I created a simple webpage that would allow me to leave a pinned tab open in my web browser that would create a popup box when trying to leave the site. The popup box can be seen below:
This is helpful because Chrome doesn’t give the option to make sure you actually want to close the window. So if you have ever, just like myself, been 2 hours deep into researching something that seemed really important at the time and then accidentally clicked the red X and have it all close, then you know how I feel.
So I created my own website that I would load and pin in the Chrome windows so that this wouldn’t happen to me. This is the code that I used:
<script>
window.onbeforeload = function(){
return "Do you really want to leave?";
};
</script>
and the site that I created is currently live at noautoclose.mharwood.uk
Just make sure to click anywhere on the page for the script to work, enjoy!
