Poll: The red X

[Caligulove]

It works, but I never really use it for anything.

That and I was trying to figure out which 'x' you meant

 

[oktalist]

It depends how much of the page it has downloaded before you press X.

Say you are viewing foo.com and you click on a link to take you to bar.com. Before you clicked, in its internal state, the browser's "current page" was foo.com and "previous page" was whatever you were looking at before that. Then, at some point during the page loading, the browser switches "current page" to bar.com and "previous page" to foo.com. So if you press stop after that switch, it will display as much of bar.com as it had been able to download. If you pressed back before the switch, it would take you to whatever you were looking at before foo.com.

There is a dichotomy between the browser's discrete internal state of "current page" which may only be one page or the other, not a bit of both, and the actual reality of going from one page to another, which is not an atomic operation.

Usually I'm not fast enough...by the time I click it the page has already loaded.
Maybe if I improved my reaction times (instead of just swearing and fumbling with the mouse)

Keyboard shortcut = escape.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Using Chrome and my blue X works perfectly, thank you very much.