This page lets you view and interact with elements such as encryption status, personal and site certificates, security-related applications, and passwords. Click on this button to halt any ongoing transfer of page information. The Stop is one of the most useful tools in Netscape. Clicking on Stop will cease the connection attempt or transfer of information which is currently in process. Long waits are often due to increased user traffic.
Some documents take longer to access than others.
You decide a sound, image or animation file being downloaded is taking too long to download because of its large size. Sounds and animations can be quite large and take time to download. The following link slow poke will take a long time to download because it contains a lot of images. Click on the link and then click on the Stop button to abort the download. You will notice that the Stop button only becomes active during a download.