Sep 30, 2016

Disable auto page refresh in Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer e.t.c

This might be a short tutorial, but important and wity.



Being the kind of person that loves to take control of any thing I can, you would love to stop the auto refresh page property of your browser.

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Auto refresh command is implemented via the use of HTML META tag __ or with javascript

The HTML META tag auto refresh command can be disabled if the browser supports it, while with advanced extension can be used to disable auto refresh for the particular website.

Doing this might be for the reason of browsing data saving and might be to save you the embarrassment of your browser interrupting your web activity automatically, let think of the instance of you reading a blog post listed from 1-80 lines and you are almost trough racing and scrolling down the article, suddenly the page reload automatically ...auch! that's too bad.

...with this tutorial you will take full control of some of your browser reload operation.

Stop auto page reload on Internet Explorer.

Note: some sites like football scores site, use the auto page command to enable users get their latest update(s)


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1. In IE 7 & 8, go to “Tools > Internet Options> Security“, click on the Custom Level button.




2. Scroll down to see “Allow META REFRESH". Select “Disable” and click OK to save change(s)



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Disable Auto Refresh on Opera

In Opera, go to “Preferences
> "Advanced”, click on the “Network” entry. Uncheck the box “Enable Automatic Redirection”.




Disable Auto Refresh in Firefox

In your fire fox browser, go to preferences >Advanced.

Go to General tab, check and tick the box “Warn me when the web sites try to redirect or reload the page“.



No solution for Safari and Chrome Browser, I will update you as soon as it's is available.
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