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Problems when participants close browser tabs

#1 by ana_c

Hi Chris (and all)

I just noticed that when a participant is too slow (timeout_happened) this participant is excluded from the game and the other participants are informed that the experiment will not continue due to a dropout. So far that is working as expected. However, in the same part of the game, if one of them closes the browser tab and the time elapses, all of them get stuck forever on their current page (it's like it does not register the timeout_happened)
Perhaps it's relevant to mention that in this example, the participant who closes the browser is on a normal page, and the other two are on a waitpage.

Do you have any clues as to what might be going wrong here? Or an example code to deal with those who close the browser? 

Thanks in advance for any help!
Anabela

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