326426 - Add feature to Reload toolbar to auto-reload page after X minutes.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 278098

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[matt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Add a pulldown to the "Reload current page" toolbar icon (like the pulldown on the Back and Forward icons) that shows a list of a few auto-reload frequencies.

When the user chooses one of these, it is checked and the page auto-reloads itself at that choosen frequency.

For example, the user goes to yahoo.com and clicks on the Reload pulldown, a list is shown:
  1 minute
  5 minutes
  30 minutes
  1 hour
  24 hours

The user clicks on '5 minutes'.  Now that page is auto-reloaded (as if the user clicked the reload button themselves) every 5 minutes.

The '5 minutes' option would be checked, so they can see what they choose.  The user can change it to some other frequency.

You could even save the auto-reload settings per page in some dB.  So, later visits to the site have the same auto-reload frequencies.  

Also, ideally, the page would reload and position itself automatically to the same position on the page it was originally at.  Ie: if the user is 50% down the page when the reload occurs, the reload will happen and the screen will display from the 50% point downward.  

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

There's an extension and a bookmarklet with this function.
http://subsimple.com/bookmarklets/collection_navigation.asp

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

See bug 278098.

Comment 3

[matt]

I was really wanting this to be an integral part of the browser, not an add-on.

People don't have to add-on 'back' and 'forward', why do they have to add this on?

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I think because the Back and Forward buttons are elementary but not this continuous reload function.