Having started my 13 minute, 5 pass cut, I got busy with other things on my PC and started closing extra browser windows. At around 7 minutes remaining in my job (guessing), my mouse was working faster than my brain and I closed the browser window my job was running in. I fully expected it to stop at any time soon and my plan was to leave my panel in the GF - as is - and just run the same job on top of it.
To my surprise, the job kept running another 6 minutes and completed the cut. I’m posting this because there was some disagreement in older posts about whether you could close the browser in the middle of a cut? I don’t know why you would choose to purposely close the browser, but if you close it accidentally, your cut, at least in my case, will continue to completion.
I accidentally did it once, also, about a month ago. Mine finished as well. I was always under the impression that once the job was sent to the GF, that the browser wasn’t needed except to watch the countdown.
I never saw the need to test it out…not purposely, at any rate.
Once the button starts flashing, all of the instructions to run your job have been sent to and stored on your Glowforge. Your computer isn’t doing anything other than showing a status update. If you close the browser and want to see the status, you can just reopen it. You could also start setting up the next job.
Oh that’s interesting. I never considered that. Opening different jobs in multiple tabs would certainly give me something to do while the active job is running and save a heck of a lot of waiting time. Thank you!