296569 - prevent reloading page with http-equiv="refresh"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 83265

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jerry Peek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.3 (Debian package 1.0.3-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1

Many pages -- like www.nytimes.com -- reload themselves automatically (via a
<meta http-equiv="refresh"...> tag, for instance).  A site may use this to bring
the latest version of a page (like the latest news summary) or it may do this to
force something to happen (like a security auto-logout, I think).  I'd like to
be able to control this reloading.  (If there's another RFE like this, I
couldn't find it.  I'm surprised!)  I have two different RFEs; maybe only one
(or neither :) is reasonable:

1) When I'm not online (over a dialup modem), pages will still try to refresh,
display "Loading..." for a while in the tab, then pop up a dialog to tell me
that the host wasn't found, etc.  It would be nice if the browser could check
that the network isn't there and not bother to try to refresh.

2) If I could set a Preference, like the one that lets me control how many times
an image loops, that would be great.  The preference could be "allow a site to
refresh its own pages: [ ] whenever it wants to, [ ] ask me first, [ ] never (I
must click Reload button)".  Maybe an "exceptions" list that lets me choose
sites which may refresh themselves -- like financial websites that do an
auto-logout for security -- would be nice.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to a site like www.nytimes.com and let the page load
2.(optional) Disconnect network
3.Wait for page to try to reload itself

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4
I don't think it's ok for Firefox to bypass the security features of websites,
such as the auto-logout feature. Maybe this configuration should not apply to
secure sites.
I haven't been able to test this, but doesn't the "File > Work Offline" option
disable the auto refresh?

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

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