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VisualEditor: add an option to cancel loading the preview of the page in new wikitext editor
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Currently, when one clicks "Review changes" or "Preview" after editing a large page, they have no choice but to wait for the process to load.

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Clicking the "X" or "<" does nothing.

On some of the most high-profile pages, like Donald Trump, this can lead to timeouts more than 50% of the time, with no way to stop them. This is incredibly frustrating.

Please add a simple button (or make the existing ones work) to stop loading a review or preview of changes.

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SUM1 created this task.Mar 11 2020, 9:17 AM
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SUM1 added subscribers: JTannerWMF, matmarex.Apr 27 2020, 7:34 AM

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matmarex added a comment.Jun 25 2021, 4:14 PM

The back button after using the "Review your changes" button works for me, even if it's still loading.

However, I can confirm the problem with the "Show preview" button when using the new wikitext mode. Using it apparently disables all other buttons in the dialog, including the close button, until it's done loading.

matmarex renamed this task from VisualEditor: add an option to cancel loading "Review changes" and "Preview" to VisualEditor: add an option to cancel loading the preview of the page in new wikitext editor.Jun 25 2021, 4:15 PM
matmarex added a project: VisualEditor-MediaWiki-2017WikitextEditor.
matmarex mentioned this in T132570: Provide a way in a pending VE save dialog to escape back to the editor e.g. to rescue content for later if the Internet connection is down.Feb 11 2022, 12:27 AM
• ppelberg added a project: Editing-team.Mar 10 2022, 5:01 PM
• ppelberg moved this task from Untriaged to This Fiscal Year on the Editing-team board.
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