(In reply to comment #0)
> For some odd reason, if epiphany gets stuck while opening a new page (I've been
> told it might be a libsoup bug), hitting stop button doesn't do anything.

What version are you using? Which page? There was a bug in webkitgtk+ that would make ephy not pick up the status change (ie, the spinner wouldn't stop), but otherwise stop would work fine.

Using 2.28 release of ephy and webkit-gtk-1.1.15.2. It has great difficulties loading ssl enables websites it seems which forces me to use firefox to report this. If you open say the url of this bug in ephy, it'll try to load for a while, then when I get bored and click stop, nothing happens, stop button and throbber keep on doing their stuff.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Using 2.28 release of ephy and webkit-gtk-1.1.15.2. It has great difficulties
> loading ssl enables websites it seems which forces me to use firefox to report
> this. If you open say the url of this bug in ephy, it'll try to load for a
> while, then when I get bored and click stop, nothing happens, stop button and
> throbber keep on doing their stuff.

This happens to me too, but only if I'm behind a proxy (Privoxy), there's no problem when using a direct internet connection.

I'm indeed behind a simple squid proxy right now, but that's after I set it up in the hope that it would help loading the websites I was trying to visit (where applicable).

I have the same sometimes, but without using a proxy.

I also suffer this even with direct connection with no proxy at all :-/

This problem should be fixed in the most recent Epiphany releases. Could you test and let us know if this is still a problem, please?

Tried 2.28.2 with an up to date libsoup (without proxy) and I still can't stop some pages from loading (or at least they keep showing as actively loading with the button not changing state).

(In reply to comment #8)
> Tried 2.28.2 with an up to date libsoup (without proxy) and I still can't stop
> some pages from loading (or at least they keep showing as actively loading with
> the button not changing state).

Can you give some specific URL to test?

It is not specific to one url, you can trigger it simply by downloading something like a pdf. Open a link to download a pdf in a new tab, the file will be downloaded but the activity indicator on the new tab will never stop.

(In reply to comment #10)
> It is not specific to one url, you can trigger it simply by downloading
> something like a pdf. Open a link to download a pdf in a new tab, the file will
> be downloaded but the activity indicator on the new tab will never stop.

Oh, should have said that earlier... I'm duping this with another newer bug, since the new one is more descriptive. Thanks for your report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 604366 ***

well the forever spinning activity applies to webpage sometimes too, it's just more easily reproducible with downloads.

(In reply to comment #12)
> well the forever spinning activity applies to webpage sometimes too, it's just
> more easily reproducible with downloads.

I'm reasonably sure that if that's the case they are different bugs that just happen to have the same side effect. When you find a URL where that happens please re-open this bug and tell us about it, thanks!