On Sep 23, 2:17*pm, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
Jon Danniken wrote:
Hit the "ESC" button to stop animated .gifs on a webpage.

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Thank you! *How did you happen to know that?

Bob

ESC generally halts the current download. I use it whenever a site
responds sluggishly or is overloaded with ads. ALT+[left arrow]
restores the previous page, like[BACK].

jsw