Disable the automatic updating of web pages in Firefox

The web pages may use a meta tag to update themselves automatically. If this is not acceptable, we see how to disable the feature in Firefox.

Some web pages have the characteristic of recharge automatically with a timer preset. There may be some legitimate and valid grounds to do this without your consent.

One example is Mantis, a bug tracking system that uses this feature to reload the index every half hour, keeping you aware of changing circumstances.

But this is not often that a fraudulent method used by webmasters to increase visits to a website, causing an unnecessary waste of bandwidth and local resources.

The automatic refresh is responsible for the meta-refresh tag , which accepts a syntax like the following:

Where 1800 is the time in seconds that must wait and URL is the address to load.

To disable this feature in Mozilla Firefox, we type about: config in the address bar and press Enter .

In the Filter box type author . The first result should be accessibility.blockautorefresh . Effettuiamovi double-click to reverse the value from False to True

Restart the browser for changes to take effect

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