The STOP button on web browsers

[ace00]

Does it ever work? Anooys the hell out of me.

[AtW]

Does it ever work? Anooys the hell out of me.

What do you expect it to do - stop flow of time?

[NickNick]

I may be wrong here, but doesn't it only stop the current thread of events, and browsers like Firefox can load several threads at once.

[ace00]

What it seems to do is to freeze the browser for ages, then continue loading the page. Then again I'm using IE 6.x right now so that's probably it. Although it doesn't really work with firefox either, especially if Java's involved.

[DimPrawn]

What it seems to do is to freeze the browser for ages, then continue loading the page. Then again I'm using IE 6.x right now so that's probably it. Although it doesn't really work with firefox either, especially if Java's involved.

Java? IE6? Is it the 20th Century again?

[d000hg]

It normally works for me, though IE6 isn't a good measure of anything.

[MPwannadecentincome]

What it seems to do is to freeze the browser for ages, then continue loading the page. Then again I'm using IE 6.x right now so that's probably it. Although it doesn't really work with firefox either, especially if Java's involved.

If the java is doing something I don't think the stop button will do anything, it was designed to 'stop' HTTP traffic between the browser session and the web server, so IE has no control over what java is communicating.

[minestrone]

Does anyone actually use java in browsers anymore? the only time I see it is crappy time management systems and the like used by company intranets.

I am having real issues with IE8, more than 5 tabs on a window and it really struggles. On both XP and Vista.

[SantaClaus]

The Stop button is for numpties.

Use "kill" and nuke the bl@@dy thing

[chicane]

Use "kill" and nuke the bl@@dy thing

But this is Windows, where you often have to reboot the computer to kill a misbehaving app.