837088 - Can't disable "Firefox prevented this page from automatically reloading" infobar

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[LycianSage]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130116073211

Steps to reproduce:

Navigated to a website which "autorefreshes". It is a news website: ntvmsnbc.com . I did not want it to autorefresh since (1) autorefresh feature exhausts the system resources and (2) i loose the current state of the webpage. I don't wan't a webpage to autorefresh on its own.

I checked the source of the webpage and the webpage had a "refresh" value for "http-equiv" attribute of "meta" tag. It was and still is exactly as follows:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300">

Then I checked out mozillazine: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility.blockautorefresh .

I checked the checkbox captioned as "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page" in  "Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Accessibility".


Actual results:

"Accessibility" checkbox disabled the autorefresh feature, but it annoys me by constantly showing an infobar just like the "Install Missing Plugins" infobar.

I do not want to uncheck the checkbox. I mean I want to keep autorefresh disabled. But I don't want the annoying infobar either.




Expected results:

There must be a way for disabling the "Firefox prevented this page from automatically reloading" infobar without enabling autorefresh feature.

We can get rid of "Install Missing Plugins" infobar through "about:config" even though we do not install any plugin http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugins.hide_infobar_for_missing_plugin .

So; I want an "about:config" preference which disables this  "Firefox prevented this page from automatically reloading" infobar without enabling autorefresh feature.

Comment 1

[LycianSage]

There must be a preference like this:

accessibility.hide_infobar_for_blockautorefresh = true/false