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There's a stop button in Internet Explorer and Firefox, but there isn't one in Google Chrome. Some pages takes too long to load and I would like the browser to stop trying to load it.
How do you stop a webpage from loading in Google Chrome?
Is there a shortcut key at all?
spong
Posted 2010-07-12T14:09:36.943
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The "go" button (a triangle) on the right side of the address bar becomes the stop button (a cross) while the page is loading.
Sharjeel Aziz
Posted 2010-07-12T14:09:36.943
Reputation: 2 643
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Press Escape. Alternatively the refresh button should be changed to a stop button.
Vivelin
Posted 2010-07-12T14:09:36.943
Reputation: 1 178
1In Windows, I've found that in some situations it works, but in others it doesn't. I think it's related to the web page intercepting the <kbd>Esc</kbd> key for another purpose. For example, the Google home page seems to use the key to move text input focus back to the search box. – Sam – 2015-11-05T00:31:16.897
also a correct answer. – spong – 2010-07-12T16:41:50.170
I now noticed Chromium does not have a Go/Stop button (see Shaji's answer), whereas Google Chrome does. – Vivelin – 2010-07-13T09:18:52.627
Useless with anything that runs on new threads like popups/timers etc. as they are created at initialisation. – Laurie Stearn – 2017-09-27T09:48:05.880
If the escape key isn't working try hitting the X button super quickly otherwise it can hang on page load and escape won't work. – anon58192932 – 2019-04-09T00:37:23.727
4Chrome v29 doesnt have Esc to stop 'feature', at least in mac. – Ricardo Martins – 2013-09-17T11:54:20.997