Do you use the stop button in your Web browser?

General · 05-17-2006, 10:35 PM

As dial-up connections are becoming a thing of the past, I wonder if the browser stop button has become obsolete. It still is present by default in every Web browser that I know of. I never use it, because it seems that pages load before you can even stop it and browsers are able to determine quickly enough if a URL is unavailable. Do you still use the stop button in your browser?

pixellany · 05-17-2006, 10:49 PM

Yes

There are often situations where a server gets hung up, constipated, whatever. Using the stop button and trying again sometimes gets results--Or maybe you see how slow a downlaod is going and decide to try a different server. If nothing else, it lets you go do something else and try the errant site later.

cs-cam · 05-17-2006, 10:56 PM

What's with the random threads?

PatrickMay16 · 05-18-2006, 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by cs-cam

What's with the random threads?

What's the problem? This seems like a legitimate question to me, and it's in the right subforum too. Why are you complaining?

I use the stop button quite a lot, mostly on pages full of horrible FREE IPOD!!!!!!!!!!!!1 WOW FREE SMILEYS!!!!11 adverts.

daihard · 05-18-2006, 01:55 AM

I still use the stop button. As someone above said, the server side of a certain site may have a problem and the page gets hung for a while. I'd rather stop rendering it than keep waiting forever.

That said, it's often easier to leave the page alone and open a new tab.

Wim Sturkenboom · 05-18-2006, 03:08 AM

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Originally Posted by General

As dial-up connections are becoming a thing of the past

Where do you live? In South Africa, it's either quite expensive or the area where one lives is not covered (or both).
ADSL: expensive and the exchange is not ready (http://www.telkom.co.za/athome/produ..._how_much.html)
MyWireless (3G): expensive and not covered (http://www.sentech.co.za/index.php?m...splay&ceid=237)
Cellphone provider (3G): not covered (http://www.vodacom.co.za/pkgcr.do?ac...&pkgGroupId=11)

6-7 rand for a dollar
8 rand for a euro

PS expensive is a relative thing, but compared to Europe I think it's expensive for what you get.

yearningmelon · 05-18-2006, 04:35 AM

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truthfatal · 05-18-2006, 09:09 AM

Yes, for the same reasons as pixellany.

Vagrant · 05-18-2006, 10:30 AM

You're assuming dial-up problems are the only reason to use it. Sometimes a page takes time to load because of processing and coding problems.

celticgeek · 05-18-2006, 11:13 AM

I use the stop button every now and then, again because the page gets "hung up" or something. Mostly I figure it is because a site has been "slash-dotted", but there do seem to be other reasons, like a particular site is busy for a short period of time and it is taking a long time to load where it usually loads very quickly, so I stop loading it and try again later.

I have a cable connection, by the way, so pages usually load very quickly.

benjithegreat98 · 05-18-2006, 02:06 PM

I rarely use the button itself, but I hit the <Esc> key when I want a page to stop loading. I usually do this if I'm ready to type but I have to wait for the page to quit loading before it will start to show what I'm typing.

dukeinlondon · 05-19-2006, 09:21 AM

timeout is not a thing of the past on a lot of sites

Linux~Powered · 05-21-2006, 04:49 AM

I don't understand. How is this a thread?

Mega Man X · 05-21-2006, 04:55 AM

Well, I do, more or less: I don't click on the stop button or press ESC ever. Mouse gestures is the way to go for me, either with Firefox or Opera

Well, anyway, I do, either use the stop "feature" or simply close the tab. There're a lot of crappy sites out there that don't deserve to be fully loaded...

Linux~Powered · 05-21-2006, 05:12 AM

Yeah, but you're always going to run into a site that's so congested that you need to stop it to prevent you from being there till you get the error that times it out for you. Or eventually you're going to click on the wrong link and realise it before the page loads, stop it and click on the right link. Everyone makes mistakes, so to say that one "never uses it" is un-realistic.