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you ever just want to yell stop it at your web browser when it's acting up

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well there's actually a button that's supposed to get the browser to do exactly that the stop button but if

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you've only ever used modern browsers you might not even really have noticed

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it it's typically a little x that occupies around the same space as the

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refresh button and disappears once the page is finished loading but the stop

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button is far from a modern invention in fact it was included in both internet

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explorer 1.0 and netscape navigator 1.0

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and it was really important back then the stop button did pretty much what it

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does now stopped the web page from loading but why exactly would you want

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that if you clicked on the link to begin with well back in the old days we were

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all using those painfully slow 28 or 56k

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if you were lucky dial up connections meaning that web pages took a long time

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to load and although plain text often loaded fairly quickly images and gifs could

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take forever we're talking like line by line and sometimes you just wanted to

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read the information on the page without all the messy graphics the slow speeds

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of the time also meant that just trying to load one web page could saturate your

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connection not ideal if you were trying to download something in the background

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like spending two days on a napster song i definitely did that not to mention

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that poorly optimized web pages could easily crash the famously unstable

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internet explorer and even if that didn't happen a page with lots of rich

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media could hog memory and CPU cycles slowing down other things on your pc

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that weren't even related to the internet like making my solitaire end

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screen slow to an unceremonious stutter the stop button was useful for getting

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problematic web pages to just stop what they were doing but nowadays high speed

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connections are the norm and our computers are usually powerful enough to handle a whole bunch of complex pages at

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once without breaking a sweat so the stop button has declined in importance

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but have you noticed that if you do try to use it

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it's often the case that nothing seems to happen we'll tell you why that is

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below okay the reason that the stop button often doesn't seem to do much is

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because it's not actually designed to stop all activity on a web page you see

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html the language that web pages are written in is pretty simple it tells the

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browser where to put text links and graphics and it also provides the

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addresses where the browser can grab elements like sound and images the stop

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button can stop the html itself from loading or if that's already done stop

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the browser from fetching additional resources it needs like the after mentioned images

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the problem is that modern web pages are made up of much more than just bare html

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instead most of them also run scripts that do everything from enabling custom

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web page layouts to processing information that you enter to serving

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you advertisements oh boy these scripts

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are basically programs that run inside your browser and as such browsers don't

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want to just terminate them suddenly as this could break much of the page's

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functionality or make the browser process itself unstable

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instead the stop button more or less makes your browser politely ask running

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scripts to stop what they're doing when they can if it's not too much trouble

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please kind of like a letter from the united nations

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but that doesn't mean the stop button is completely useless it can sometimes

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still stop really irritating web page elements from interfering with the

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content you actually want such as paywalls as long as you can hit

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the stop button at exactly the right time but

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you might have better luck at the county fair thanks for watching guys if you liked

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this video hit like hit subscribe and hit us up in the comments section with

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your suggestions for topics that we should cover in the future do you guys

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actually use a stop button how often do you use the stop button

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like once a year once a month