Clear all browser timeouts

clearTimeouts.js

// isolated layer wrapper (for the local variables)
(function(_W){

  var cache = [],                // will store all timeouts IDs
      _set = _W.setTimeout,      // save original reference
      _clear = _W.clearTimeout   // save original reference
  
  // Wrap original setTimeout with a function 
  _W.setTimeout = function( CB, duration, arg ){
      // also, wrap the callback, so the cache reference will be removed 
      // when the timeout has reached (fired the callback)
      var id = _set(function(){
          removeCacheItem(id)
          CB.apply(null, arguments)
      }, duration || 0, arg)
  
      cache.push(id) // store reference in the cache array
  
      // id reference must be returned to be able to clear it 
      return id
  }
  
  // Wrap original clearTimeout with a function 
  _W.clearTimeout = function( id ){
      _clear(id)
      removeCacheItem(id)
  }
  
  // Add a custom function named "clearTimeouts" to the "window" object
  _W.clearTimeouts = function(){
      console.log("Clearing " + cache.length + " timeouts")
      cache.forEach(n => _clear(n))
      cache.length = []
  }
  
  // removes a specific id from the cache array 
  function removeCacheItem( id ){
      var idx = cache.indexOf(id)
      
      if( idx > -1 )
          cache = cache.filter(n => n != id )
  }
  
})(window);

Import this into your code, at the very beginning, before any timeouts are defined and all setTimeout calls will be cached so they could be cleared at any given time

Not working for me. Executes but the length of the cache is always zero. Do the settimeouts somehow need to be separately assigned to the window object?

please make a jsbin showing where the problem is, because this code must and does work

No errors or anything. window.clearTimeouts runs, but the cache is always empty, even though there are dozens of setTimeouts called. If I set the timeouts under the window object (window.setTimeout), then I get "_set is not a function. " Could I please see an example of this code inside a working script that doesn't otherwise use a window object?

@zabytu - Proof the code is working as expected: https://jsbin.com/hasexel/edit?js,console

Very helpful. Thank you for that piece of genius.