From time to time I find myself not wanting the home page I have set from loading.
First I tried 'x'ing out the tab and Firefox quit!
Then I looked for a hotkey to stop the page from loading. Nothing.
Then I found this:
"Loading home page. Setting the homepage to a blank page or a local page will stop this connection."
And what if you want to do a seat-of-the-pants stop to the page loading?
Can't do?
Rather strange.
Stopping home page from loading...
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Re: Stopping home page from loading...
Are you talking about stopping the Home page loading during start up or while browsing? IF on start up, you could create a separate shortcut that launches Firefox with the URL of your chosen home page, while having a second shortcut that launches with the home page set to blank.
See this article, in particular the third entry in the List of command line arguments -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
See this article, in particular the third entry in the List of command line arguments -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
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Re: Stopping home page from loading...
DanRaisch wrote:Are you talking about stopping the Home page loading during start up or while browsing? IF on start up, you could create a separate shortcut that launches Firefox with the URL of your chosen home page, while having a second shortcut that launches with the home page set to blank.
See this article, in particular the third entry in the List of command line arguments -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
Yes I am.
Thanks for helping out.
That is a bit of an ugly solution.
I have fixed keys on my keyboard that launch different apps, FF etc. (I don't launch from the desktop).
I guess I will just start FF with a blank page then and click my 'homepage' when I want to go there.
I would have thought there would be a hotkey where you could cancel any page from loading.
That seems like the most intuitive programming way to do this.
I know if one of 3, 4 , 5 tabs etc. is loading and I change my mind I can always click on the 'x' on the tab to close it.
Works like a charm.
Too bad it doesn't work on the first tab (homepage).
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Re: Stopping home page from loading...
Did you try the "Esc" key?Then I looked for a hotkey to stop the page from loading. Nothing.
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Well I'll be darned! Worked like a charm.
Thanks very much. Problem solved.
Thanks very much. Problem solved.
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Re: Stopping home page from loading...
The clue is in the 'first' part.MozillaMonkey wrote:Too bad it doesn't work on the first tab (homepage).
Enter about:config in the addressbar and toggle the browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab entry to false.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
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