You can stop a page load in progress whenever the transfer takes longer than you like. This might happen if the content of the page is large or if the server computer is sluggish. Sometimes the page specified by a link just isn't available. You'll usually get a message if a connection was not made or a page not found. Examine the status field and progress bar to receive feedback about the progress of a transfer. You can stop a transfer in progress by pressing the Stop button or choosing the Go|Stop Loading menu item.

You may also choose to View|Reload on the menu bar or press the Reload button on the toolbar, to bring the current page back again, this time with the Auto Load Image option active. This brings a fresh copy of the current Netscape page to replace the one you originally tried to load. Netscape checks the network server to see if any change to the page has occurred. If there's no change, the fresh copy is retrieved from the cache. If there's a change, the fresh copy is transmitted from the network server and the reloaded page displays the updated page contents. If you press the Reload button while holding down the Shift key (Option key on Macintosh), Netscape retrieves a fresh version from the network server regardless of whether the page has been updated (the cache is not used).