256982 - Disable automatic page refresh / reload

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 83265

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Paul Walker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

Certain news pages like to set their pages to automatically refresh every X
minutes. This is both wasteful of bandwidth, and quite annoying if you're
reading the page at the time. 

It would be nice if the user could disable automatic page refresh (done via HTML
tags, I understand that it would probably be hard/impossible if the reload is
done via javascript). 

I don't know what the best UI for this would be. Maybe a context option, or
something like the image-blocking interface (so you don't have to disable it for
every story on a site)?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Seamonkey bug 83265

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Confirming enhancement request. Not likely to get any UI IMO.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 257080 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

*** Bug 280907 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Prognathous]

RefreshBlocker is a Firefox Extension that prevents the "browser from following
the forwarding specified by the refresh parameter of the META tag element. If
such a refresh parameter is given on a web page, an infobox will be displayed at
the top of the page."

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=992

Prog.

Comment 6

[OstGote!]

Duping to Core bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83265 ***