Looked at the location bar... shed a tear for my "http://"
You can disable that by going to about:config and setting browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false.
It's old, but still a pain. Remember when Stop had a separate button?
There's always been a separate stop button, you just have to customize the toolbar so that the stop button is ordered before the reload button, otherwise it "combines" them into a single reload/stop button. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2142587
Basically you right click the toolbar, select customize, then drag the stop button to the left of the reload button, and viola... separate buttons (yes it's retarded).