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Why does the stop button so seldom work?

Post Date: Jun 25, 2008 2:40 p.m.
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Somethings that puzzles me since the stone age of the Internet: Practically each browser has a "Stop" button (usually next to the "Go" button). Why do these Stop-buttons practically never work properly? Almost everytime, if some website does not react and I want to get the browser "reactive" again, I try to press stop to abort the request and/or the download. This almost never works! Is it really so hard to interrupt or kill a process that opened an IP connection and sits there waiting??? How come, that after 10+ years of Internet browser development a slow or non-reactive website can still stall the browser and force me to wait half a minute or so until some timeout finally ends that waiting and gets the browser alive again? Why is the user’s wish to END THIS NOW!!! always considered so irrelevant? Michael

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