320649 - behaviour of the cancel button ("stop loading this page") in the main navigation

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78681

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Graf Rotz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051210 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051210 Firefox/1.5

the cancel button (called "stop loading this page") do not cancel _instantly_. i see homepage A and click a link to see homepage B. homepage B is not coming (because it is not fast) and i decide to cancel the try of loading B. at this point i _still_ see homepage A. that is ok. and  now i click cancel...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load homepage A
2. click a link to reach homepage B
3. click cancel ("stop loading this
 page")
Actual Results:  
when i click cancel it happens that homepage A disappears and i see nothing. neither A or B. i do not like that. 

Expected Results:  
the cancel button should instantly cancel the loading action. 

it is a usability question. cancel should do cancel instantly.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to Suite bug 191915 -> Core bug 78681?

Comment 2

[Graf Rotz]

Yes.

Comment 3

[Steve Magruder]

This issue happens on Firefox 2 / Windows 2000 as well.

"Stop loading this page" should halt going to the new page and return me to where I was, not display a blank page.