115963 - The stop button means nothing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 76495

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Sam Rowe]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011217
BuildID:    2001121708

There seems to be a point of no return when loading a given page, and that point
isn't very far in. IMO, pressing stop or hitting Esc should stop the particular
Mozilla window in its tracks. What happens instead is that (when clicking the
stop button) the stop button will becme greyed out and Mozilla will continue on
its merry way, loading the next page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a hyperlink
2. hit esc AND hit the stop button
3. Watch Mozilla ignore you

Actual Results:  Mozilla loads the next page

Expected Results:  Mozilla stops whatever it is doing.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

could paint suppression be affecting this?  eg, a page is loaded, and parsed 
and nearly laid out and is still suppressed.  Then we hit stop.

Comment 2

[David Hyatt]

Nope.

Comment 3

[[not reading bugmail]]

I've seen this before on dialup.. parser still processes and the stop button
doesn't interupt the parser/renderer.  Its not catching it in time?

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->layout?

Comment 5

[Dimitrios]

Always seeing it on Windows. You don't need to press Esc. Most times (depending
on the connection speed) clicking the stop button doesn't prevent Mozilla from
proceeding to the next page (Bugzilla is a common testcase) or a useless blank
page. If you have a slow connection, you can notice that happening well before
starting to retrieve the next page. OS->All.

Comment 6

[Sam Rowe]

Should one infer from the TargetMilestone that a 1.0 browser doesn't need a
working Stop button?

Comment 7

[Andrew Hagen]

WFM Build ID: 2002041903 (0.9.9+) trunk Windows 98. Tested on msnbc.com, which
loads slowly on my bandwidth connection.

Is there a testcase or a URL or something?

Comment 8

[Dimitrios]

Finally I think it's a duplicate of bug 76495 (see similar dupes in that
report). When trying to load a new page, Stop button is visually responding but
the actual event is ignored.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76495 ***

Comment 9

[Vadim Berezniker]

Are you sure about that?

That bug is only about the document not responding, everything outside the
document still responds. Including the chrome.

I don't think it's a dupe.

Comment 10

[Dimitrios]

Imo, all these responsiveness problems when loading a page share a common
reason. See also the discussion on bug 91822.