Earlier, the websites were static which on loading the page, the content remained the same and displayed the same content to every site visitor. However, with dynamic websites, things changed, and it generated unique content every time the page loaded. With the advent of features like the web page auto-refresh, the users are tremendously benefited with the real-time information. The websites refresh automatically every few seconds to display the updated content. This is especially useful when you are viewing real-time websites that report news, auction, election results, and other live reports.
Stop a web page from automatically refreshing
While the feature is extremely useful, it can be annoying when you want to read the content and the page gets reloaded automatically every second in the middle of your work. If this feature is unnecessary and interrupting, you can disable the automatic web page refresh. This article shows you how to disable auto-refresh in major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
Disable Auto-Refresh in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge
While there is no direct method to disable the web page auto-refresh in Chrome, one can opt to download a third-party extension to block the web page refresh automatically. Follow the below steps to disable web page auto-refresh in Chrome
Download and install the Auto Refresh Blocker or Stop AutoRefresh extension from the Chrome Store.
Microsoft Edge users can also use this browser extension to stop auto-refresh.
Type chrome://extensions in the URL and Navigate to Options.
Go to Details and click on Extension options.
Tick the option with Disable Meta Refresh elements in pages and click on Close.
Additionally one can disable the automatic tab discarding to stop the tabs from auto-refreshing.
Go to Chrome://flags in the URL.
Type Automatic tab discarding in the search bar and choose Disable from the drop-down menu for the flag Automatic tab discarding.
One can also choose to blacklist the websites from an auto-refresh. To do this open the website you want to blacklist.
In the top right corner of the page, choose the option Auto refresh Blocker and click on Blacklist website.
Disable Auto-Refresh in FireFox
Type about: config in the URL and click on Enter.
In the search bar, type the preference name accessibility.blockautorefresh.
Right-click on the preference name accessibility.blockautorefresh and choose the toggle option from the drop-down menu.
Change the value to true from false to disable web page auto-refresh.
See this post to know how to disable Auto-refresh in Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer.
