# Why does "stop" mean "stop" with IExplorer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 16, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-stop-mean-stop-with-iexplorer/132577 "2002-10-16T21:44:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-stop-mean-stop-with-iexplorer/132577/1 "2002-10-16T21:44:49Z")
Heh. I am so damn smart I copied my text incase the Hamsters ate my post… which they did! Original (hamster food) post: > [@](#): > > So, I am downloading a page from the net. Since I am on a 56K line, its slow. After what I want to see, I hit the big “X” = STOP button, so I don’t keep “downloading” crap from the webpage that I don’t want to bother with… like ads, possible pop-ups that are coded in, etc. > > But! It almost never works! After I hit STOP, the progress bar on the bottom left still keeps moving, and crap keeps coming up. I can understand that webpage owners/developers want us to be exposed to possible ads, but why doesn’t the STOP button actually over-rule what _they_ want us to see? Sometimes they are not even ads, just “content” from the rest of the page. Is there a workaround? ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-stop-mean-stop-with-iexplorer/132577/2 "2002-10-16T22:05:25Z")
Gah! Title should read: Why **doesn’t** “stop” mean “stop” with IExplorer? ---
**Author:** ![PolskiKing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@PolskiKing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PolskiKing)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-stop-mean-stop-with-iexplorer/132577/3 "2002-10-16T22:14:06Z")
u already recieved the source code and your browers is interpreting it -PK ---
**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-stop-mean-stop-with-iexplorer/132577/4 "2002-10-16T22:14:23Z")
Because Internet Explorer sucks and you should use Mozilla/Phoenix instead? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-stop-mean-stop-with-iexplorer/132577/5 "2002-10-16T23:08:54Z")
> [@](#): > > u already recieved the source code and your browers is interpreting it No. It does not take even remotely that long for IE to render a page. The “stop” button in IE has simply never worked correctly, and it will continue to download ilayers and javascript-generated content whether you want it to or not. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-stop-mean-stop-with-iexplorer/132577/6 "2002-10-16T23:48:37Z")
[paste] > [@](#): > > I copied my text incase the Hamsters ate my post I do that every time I post [/paste] ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-stop-mean-stop-with-iexplorer/132577/7 "2002-10-17T04:00:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by friedo \* > \*\* > > No. It does not take even remotely that long for IE to render a page. The “stop” button in IE has simply never worked correctly, and it will continue to download ilayers and javascript-generated content whether you want it to or not. \*\* Suh-weet! ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-stop-mean-stop-with-iexplorer/132577/8 "2002-10-17T13:48:39Z")
If this kind of stuff is important to you, you might want to try out the latest Mozilla browser. It lets you block the loading of images from selected servers. For example, on a Yahoo page, there are usually ads at the top, served from a set of servers that all they do is give ad images. You just right-click and choose “Block images from this server,” and poof, you don’t have to wait for those to download any more. Plus the stop button seems to work. By the way, the “ESC” key is the same as “Stop” in IE, Mozilla, and Opera, so you might try that if the button doesn’t work.