I have seen this before. My experience was in IE though. It seemed to stop pulling the page about 3/4 the way into it, and then, when I stopped IE from trying to load the page, it rendered the HTML that it had pulled. In the resulting page, there was no "Clear these nodes" button. I forget how I finally fixed it, but it was solvable somehow.

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