See, then I lose all functionality of Google Reader and similar sites. The point is that I don't want to blanket-ly stop the entire page or browser, I need to be able to stop particular requests. I'll agree that it's a unique problem, and there may not be a solution.<br>
<br>But every time I see that "Transferring data from blahblahblah.com..." in the status bar in FireFox, I wish I could just double-click on it and bring up all the requests for that tab, and be able to kill each one individually or in batch.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Tom Pohl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@tcpconsulting.com">tom@tcpconsulting.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;">If you use Firefox, I recommend a plugin called no-script and completely disable javascript on that site/page<div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>-Tom</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div><br><div><div>On Oct 27, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Kenneth Younger wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Yes this works when I want it to be browser wide, but there are times where I just want it to be site-wide, or more conveniently, ad-hoc.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:03 PM, L. V. Lammert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net" target="_blank">lvl@omnitec.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>At 03:59 PM 10/27/2010, you wrote:<br>
>So, I run into this issue frequently, as I have my computer tethered<br>
>to my phone - in a location I really only get about dialup speeds.<br>
><br>
>There are times when I visit a site, and want to read the content,<br>
>but could care less about pictures or other crap loading - so I hit<br>
>ESC or the stop button on the browser. And most of the time this suffices.<br>
><br>
>However, I've noticed that if there are any other requests made from<br>
>the page with AJAX, then the stop doesn't work. This is particularly<br>
>noticeable in Google Reader when opening an item that has like 40<br>
>images, and then moving to another feed to read other items, the 40<br>
>images are still trying to load. I can't use the stop button or esc<br>
>to stop these from loading because GReader dynamically renders this<br>
>content, and the main "page" has already loaded. As far as I can<br>
>tell the only way to fix this is to close that tab and reload, which<br>
>is a huge PITA.<br>
><br>
>Can anyone think of a good solution to this?<br>
<br>
</div>What about turning off 'Load Images Automatically'?<br>
<br>
Lee<br>
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