# New notebook not loading / responding

**URL:** <https://talk.observablehq.com/t/new-notebook-not-loading-responding/4460>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [January 15, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/new-notebook-not-loading-responding/4460 "2021-01-15T00:14:27Z")\
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All of a user’s notebooks share the the same process. If one notebook hangs, it will affect all other open notebooks from that user.

When the warning message appears, click “Safe mode”. That should switch all open notebooks into a text-only version.

If that doesn’t work, try the steps that are described in this comment:

> [@Are all of these setTimeout and setInterval calls normal?](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/are-all-of-these-settimeout-and-setinterval-calls-normal/2238/6):
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> The worker process is shared between multiple notebooks:

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