How to halt a headless browser from loading a page?

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I am utilizing the watir-webdriver gem in Ruby for browser automation. When I initiate Chrome, the web page starts to load, but it often takes too long, leading to a timeout error from watir-webdriver. What methods can I employ to stop the browser from continuing to load the page?

require 'watir-webdriver'

client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
client.timeout = 10
@browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, http_client: client

urls = [
  'http://google.com/',
  'http://yahoo.com/',
  'http://www.veryslowwebsite.com/', # This site loads slowly
  'http://drupal.org/',
  'http://www.msn.com/',
  'http://stackoverflow.com/'
]

urls.each do |link|
  begin
    @browser.goto(link)
    puts "Loaded successfully: #{link}"
  rescue
    puts "Loading timed out: #{link}"
  end
end

It appears that while the browser is loading a page, it does not process other commands. Is there a way to cancel the current loading process and proceed with the next command?

UPDATE

I’ve discovered a capability flag called loadAsync. I wonder if this could potentially help in addressing my issue? I’m uncertain on how to configure watir to utilize this when initiating chromedriver.