Recovering When 3DE Is Broken

Breaking a web browser is surprisingly easy. It is so easy and happens so often that people have invented many descriptions for a broken browser: frozen, locked, stopped, or just broken. If you create a sphere with a million chunks, the browser will completely freeze up. If you create a code loop with no stopping point, the browser will lock. No typing. No scrolling. Nothing.

If the browser is frozen, then the 3DE Code Editor is broken, right?

Well, yes, but there’s an easy way to fix it: add ?e or ?edit-only to the URL so you’re looking at http://code3Dgames.com/3de/?e. This is edit-only mode for 3DE.

Fix the last thing that you typed to break 3DE, and then remove the edit-only question mark from the URL so ...

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