Enable "Refresh" after "Stop" - or, whatever happened to the "Go" button"?

[jondp]

Loading pages can take a while, and while it happens the "Stop" button is displayed.

There are many cases we as users know that the page won't load (the simplest case is if you forgot to turn on your wifi, but there are many others, specially if you're a developer).

In such cases, I hit "stop" on the browser - why keep it waiting for a response I already know it's not coming, right?

In such case, the "Refresh" button is not available, and we need to re-open the address box, and hit enter again to have Firefox retry to open the page. My suggestion is to simply enable it.

An alternative (for the nostalgics) would be to bring back the "Go" button (deceased somewhere near the end of the 90's or beginning of the 20's). The "Go" button was replaced by the <ENTER> key in the address bar, but could very much be optional.

Thanks!

[Jon]

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