There is an “X” in the upper right hand corner when you first click “Learn words” (See red circle in screenshot)
Clicking on this button does not do anything though. I have to close the tab to exit the course.
Also: Is this the only way to add a course? Why is there no simple way to “like” or “subscribe” to a course without actually starting it and then closing the tab to cancel out of it?
Yes, on the web starting a planting/learning session is the only way to subscribe to a course.
When I click the X, I get a popup asking if I want to leave or stay, and after selecting Leave Page, it takes me to my dashboard. (I tried two browsers; they both worked.) Is it possible you have a browser addon, plugin, or setting that’s interfering?
@Kaspian Thank you for your answer. I don’t see a popup but did notice the pause button which opens the popup.
The popup does not open when I click the “X”. I can also not load another memrise page. (They seem to disable navigation entirely during the course), so while the same tab is open there is no way to exit the course besides closing the tab or hitting the “pause” button.
I use “Brave” as a browser. it’s basically like Chrome but filters ads.
Can you post a screenshot of that popup?
Also, which browser are you using?
I tested using both Firefox and Iron. Iron is also based on Chrome.
In this moment, clicking the X in Firefox gives the the popup, and in Iron, it simply exits and loads the dashboard. It’s possible that I changed a setting in Iron to avoid the popup. Here’s what it looks like in Firefox:
It’s a boring popup!
And yes, there’s also the pause button near the upper left corner. It pauses the timer (if there is one) and whites out most of the screen:
Clicking “Save and exit,” takes me back to the page I came from. (In this case, it’s lesson 8 of Duolingo Romanian Vocabulary.)
In both browsers, I can edit the URL to go to the lesson page, course page, dashboard, or any website. So again, I’m thinking you must have a setting, addon, or extension that’s giving you trouble.
@Kaspian thank you that helped a lot. I now know that the browser seems to have a bug, handling the “beforeunload” event which prevents the window.alert from showing. Therefore disabling the entire navigation since it relies on interaction with that prompt/alert.
I filed that Brave bug.
