198236 - ESC doesn't stop slow page loading while clicking on stop button does

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Michael T. Babcock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

So far all I've got is that I can't stop loading a slow-to-load page with ESC
when I open a new browser window, I have to click the stop icon.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set browser to have a slow-to-load homepage (dmoz.com right now for me ...)
2. Start a new browser window
3. Hit ESC once the stop icon is available to stop waiting for a new page to
load (so you can get on with your browsing)

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
Stop loading.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Which window has focus when you hit ESC?

Comment 2

[Michael T. Babcock]

The "current", red-stop-sign window.

If my homepage were still slow-loading, I'd test clicking the window anywhere,
then hitting ESC first.  But I'm on Windows XP (haven't checked on my Linux box)
which auto-focusses the new window.

That said, the ESC cancel works fine right now and I'm suspicious that this
problem is only true when the browser is in the connection state; not yet begun
transferring from the website.

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

Is this a cross-plaform version of bug 179606.

Someone should look for dup's and related bugs on this.

Comment 4

[Michael T. Babcock]

I was suspicious that they might be the same until I read the comments in that
bug.  Perhaps the same question should be asked in that bug?

Comment 5

[Ian Neal]

bug 179606 appears to be to do with which key on a mac keyboard is the
equivalent of clicking on stop not that key doesn't work like here.
bug 168379 might be related but that appears to be to do with page redirects,
reporter is the site that's slow for you doing a redirect?

Comment 6

[Ian Neal]

Confirming and ccing as per request by timeless via irc :-)

Comment 7

[k b]

confirming
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030720

also seen if one is connected through a slow connection (modem, mobile phone,
etc.). press stop on a page, page stops loading but images on page continue to load.

Comment 8

[k b]

adding:
also seen if clicking on a link while page loads, images on current does not
stop loading, thay continue to eat bandwidth instead of being stopped in favour
for new page.

all this is seen before the new page begins to display.

Comment 9

[Aaron Leventhal]

This is WFM using test case in comment #1, for Mozilla 1.8a2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040603

Still a bug for anyone else?

Comment #8 sounds like a totally different bug needs to be filed for that.

Comment 10

[k b]

The stop bug seems to be working (no problems stopping that is).
esc is working.

when it comes to the time it takes before it stops (please split bug if needed)
i did some tests, at the most it continued to load 25 kb after the esc-button
was pressed. this micht not seem to be much but is a conciderable over head when
connecting with slow modems (mobile phones).

Comment 11

[Aaron Leventhal]

> when it comes to the time it takes before it stops (please split bug if needed)
> i did some tests, at the most it continued to load 25 kb after the esc-button
> was pressed. this micht not seem to be much but is a conciderable over head when
> connecting with slow modems (mobile phones).
That could be because checking for Escape a lot would make things even slower.
I'm not sure. File a new bug if you need to.