"Stop" means STOP means stop means ...

[Martin Nadeau]

On Nov 09, 2004, at 12:52, Jason Kerr wrote:

>
> I often find that I am unable to make OW _stop_ loading a page (and 
> all sub-requests). No matter how many times I select the STOP button, 
> the status indicator still shows that the page is loading. (This isn't 
> just a problem with the indicator, the Network Activity window shows 
> that one or more elements of the page are active.)
>
> A clue to behavior - several times when the page is still loading, the 
> Network Activity window 'tree' show one or more elements aborted but 
> still active. (That last is an assumption - the activity window seems 
> to clear all elements that are not active from the tree/list.)
>
> My guess is that loading the element may have been aborted, but the 
> thread is hung. (I don't know how the requests are architected; 
> 'thread' is my term for 'flow of control' not 'O/S thread'.)
>
>
> Any way to get this fixed for OW5.1?

I've been having this problem since the first OW 5.0 betas. Although it 
was much worse back then and improved later on, it was never completely 
fixed. I'm also hoping for a definitive solution to this.

-- 
Martin Nadeau