Frequent Reloads/Refreshes

[tnffuser]

FF has, in the past few weeks, starting doing an awful lot of reloading of pages.
The page will turn white then return to the page. It seems to be an actual refresh as sometimes an article or such will be missing upon refresh.
is there something in setting that control reloading of pages and let me do the refresh?

[DanRaisch]

Have you tried starting Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
If no improvement using Safe Mode, do you have the same problem if you create a new profile and test it with no extensions or non-default themes installed?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
and
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_ne ... on_Windows

Also see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox

[RobertJ]

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Some sites do that; how about a URL?

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[tnffuser]

One that I remember off the top of my head is Drudge Report.
There is a refresh every minute or so on that one.
Maybe it is the sites, and not FF.

No have not tried safe mode, but did disable all addons, and restart, no change.

[RobertJ]

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Just went to the Drudge Report using a blank FF test profile (i.e., no extensions) and waited five minutes and there were no refreshes.

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[gorhill]

One that I remember off the top of my head is Drudge Report.
There is a refresh every minute or so on that one.
Maybe it is the sites, and not FF.

The site itself is programmed to do this, there is this inline javascript code on the page:

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<!-- 
var timer = setInterval("autoRefresh()", 1000 * 43 * 3);
function autoRefresh(){self.location.reload(true);}
//--> 

This makes the page reload every ~2 minutes.

[RobertJ]

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gorhill, that is interesting. I tried the Drudge Report using my normal profile and it does reload about every couple of minutes. No clue why the blank profile does not.

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