Automatic Refresh

[widgetwilk]

Have been using FF for years and in the past every time I turn it on it is always refreshed, but just lately it is not doing it, I am on 72.0.2 and it says it is up to date.

[malliz]

It is up to date. Firefox 73 is still in the beta stage

[widgetwilk]

It says it 'up to date'

[LIMPET235]

Moving to Firefox Support..

[jscher2000]

Were you running "Nightly" before? The other releases do not update every day.

[widgetwilk]

[quote="jscher2000"]Were you running "Nightly" ????
do you mean leaving the computer on??? or what do you mean by 'running Hightly'

[mightyglydd]

http://www.montypython.net/sounds/sketc ... pyloon.wav

[widgetwilk]

http://www.montypython.net/sounds/sketc ... pyloon.wav

What are you on about??????

[dickvl]

Were you running "Nightly" ????

do you mean leaving the computer on??? or what do you mean by 'running Hightly'

There are several other Firefox versions meant for testers each with their own update channel and one of them is the Firefox Nightly build (currently Firefox 74).
These test versions are updated twice daily (Nightly) or twice weekly (Beta, DE).
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/

[widgetwilk]

No just says Firefox Browser, can't put screen shot on here,
but as I said, I have 4/5 favorites sites open in the toolbar, so when I open the browser all of them open, they use to all be a new page, but now they are not, and I have to refresh to get the latest news/posts.
I have been to Tools/Options/Home and have that ticked right.

[dickvl]

Do you mean that Firefox loads these bookmarks from the disk cache and that you need to refresh the tabs to get fresh content ?

You can use "Clear history when Firefox closes" to clear the Cache to prevent Firefox from loading the pages from the disk cache.

To see the History settings, go to:
Options -> Privacy & Security
Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history"
"Clear history when Firefox closes" -> Settings -> Cache
You can remove the checkmark on all other items unless you want to remove some.
Note that clearing Cookies this way will remove all cookies including cookies with an allow exception.
You can use "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" instead.

See also:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fi ... d-settings

[widgetwilk]

Thanks, I have 'remember History' and 'Clear History' all else is ticked.
in that 'remember History' it has 'never rember' ans 'use custom setting'
What now???

[jscher2000]

Thanks, I have 'remember History' and 'Clear History' all else is ticked.
in that 'remember History' it has 'never rember' ans 'use custom setting'
What now???

Did it work? To summarize, you change

Firefox will: Remember history

to

Firefox will: Use custom settings for history

Keep a check mark for "Remember browsing and download history" and whatever you prefer for "Remember search and form history".

Add a check mark for "Clear history when Firefox closes" then click its Settings button and make sure the ONLY box checked here is Cache. OK that.

Now, when you exit Firefox, it should dump the cache. When you start up, since Firefox is not able to show a cached version of your home pages (or other pages), it will need to retrieve them fresh from the source.

Is that working?