Chrome has a habit of crashing, often for no real reason. When running a Kiosk, or Digital Signage - the ability the quickly reload the page is essential. This plugin does exactly that.
This is not a replacement for correcting problems in the first place (memory leaks especially) and isn't particularly useful in an everyday environment, where you can simply press the refresh button yourself.
- Download and unzip package onto disk
- Optional: Run
$ yarn install
for improved editor support - Open Chrome extensions page (
chrome://extensions
) - Enable developer mode
- Select "Load unpacked", select the base folder ("ohnoyoudidnt"), and click 'ok'
- Simulate a failure!
Install the package from the Chrome Store.
Copy this into the javascript console of any tab to crash it. (Causes an out of memory error)
let memoryEater = "nom";
while (true) {
memoryEater = memoryEater += "nom";
}
OR visit the following URL chrome://crash