1432540 - Cannot prevent page reloading

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[bugzzzz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20171229042425

Steps to reproduce:

1- Set Preferences->Advanced->Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page.
2- Restarted Firefox
3- opened http://www.lemonde.fr/


Actual results:

The current page is still reloading periodically without warning message


Expected results:

The current page should not reload without a warning message and my autorisation

Comment 1

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

This option has been removed from the preferences UI since your build, but the functionality still exists in the accessibility.blockautorefresh preference, which can be toggled on in about:config. 

The Le Monde website doesnt do this refresh for me currently so I wasn't able to confirm with that example, but I did check this quickly with a page using <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" /> and got the expected warning that Nightly had blocked the refresh when that preference is set. 

As you are using an older version of Firefox, it may also be worth double-checking with the current release version, or, better still, with Nightly. This problem could also be potentially caused by an add-on. To rule that out, try disabling all add-ons, or test with a new profile to confirm the behavior still exists.

If you are able to still reproduce this problem, it would be helpful to know what mechanism the site in question is using to refresh the page (from the server, meta tag or script?) We can find that out if you aren't sure how, but any detail you can provide would be a great help.

Comment 2

[bugzzzz]

I could reproduce this unbearable behaviour with 58.0.1 (64 bits) and a few plugins/modules.
I have now to test it in a VM without any plugins/modules to answer more completely to your post.