Can I get the Stop button back on Firefox?

The “reload” button automatically turns into the “stop” button if the page is still being loaded. If you want to have a separate button, though, you need to go to the toolbar customization thing, don’t remember where it was, and drag the button over to your toolbar.

Aha! Thanks very much!

If you are old-school though, try Toolbar Buttons

I find this add-on essential, as I have since it first came out. It will allow you to keep separate Stop and Reload buttons if you so desire for whatever reason and SO much more.

Try spacebar.

I just hit the Esc key.

Just hit the refresh button again.

Just hit Alt + F4.

Trying now on Linux, neither the spacebar nor the Esc key stop the page load.
The red X which replaces the reload graphic during page loading works, as does finding the setting to customize the buttons. Alt+F4 closes all of Firefox, which is good to know but isn’t what I wanted.

Thanks for the Toolbar buttons link jerv. Wow, those are a lot of buttons.