This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since August 2016.
The window.stop() stops further resource loading in the current browsing context, equivalent to the stop button in the browser.
Because of how scripts are executed, this method cannot interrupt its parent document's loading, but it will stop its images, new windows, and other still-loading objects.
stop()
None.
None (undefined).
window.stop();
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-window-stop-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
stop |
1 | 14 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/stop