You all know it,if youre using firefox it's probably blue,I was curious,Does it ever actually work for you?On my browser as soon as I hit it it takes me to that site and I have to just hit back anyway,is it worth it,or a waste?
Poll: The red X
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Every once in a while my computer will have to much going on and the X stops working. Thats when i crack open task manager.
Well, I use Chrome and every time I hit the X (it's blue for me) the page stops pretty quickly. If it does take me to the site I accidentally clicked on, it's because I was too slow to hit the stop button in the first place.
Chrome is pretty speedy.
Chrome is pretty speedy.
Oh, you mean the "Stop Navigation" button. It works, but you do have to supply a new place to go. I hardly use it.
I use it all the time with the Stop! Hammertime! add-on for Firefox.
I does work, and I think it's useful for a situation where pressing back would resend some information you've entered on a form... like if you were ordering something online, pressing back may reload the previous page and order 2 items, but stop would just cancel the page loading without duplicating anything.
It was also more useful in the days of dial-up modems, but now you have to have pretty quick reactions to stop a page before it loads.
I does work, and I think it's useful for a situation where pressing back would resend some information you've entered on a form... like if you were ordering something online, pressing back may reload the previous page and order 2 items, but stop would just cancel the page loading without duplicating anything.
It was also more useful in the days of dial-up modems, but now you have to have pretty quick reactions to stop a page before it loads.
It stops downloading any more information from the site, but it displays what it has pulled down, so you will have to hit back anyway.
The Stop button? Would have been a lot easier if OP had just stated that's what they meant.mew4ever23 said:OP's referring to the X beside the Refresh button.Frequen-Z said:What red X?
I don't use it, I don't understand why anyone would need to.
Yeah man, I use Firefox and sometimes a page on my computer will stop prematurely stop loading and I'll need to stop buttfucking my CPU with background programs to fix the issue. I don't see any issue with it stopping navigation as it's designed to do.
I use Opera and it tends to work instantly for me. On rare occasions I have to use Task Manager but for the most part it seems pretty effective.
