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Drudge Report | 03-07-2013 | Red Badger

Posted on 03/07/2013 7:21:03 AM PST by Red Badger

Does anybody know of a way to stop The Drudge Report website from automatically reloading every few minutes? It's annoying and slows down the computer for other tasks.

Usually I just close that Tab and reload when I want to, but that is annoying as well.........


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Thanks in advance for your help. I know there must be others that have this annoying problem.........
1 posted on 03/07/2013 7:21:06 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Close the window


2 posted on 03/07/2013 7:23:00 AM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: Red Badger

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=stop+a+site+auto+refresh


3 posted on 03/07/2013 7:27:03 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Red Badger
I guess it depends on the browser. Here's how to change options in Firefox:

Stop and Disable web pages auto refresh...
4 posted on 03/07/2013 7:27:16 AM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Red Badger

If you use IE, go to Tools > Internet Options > Security tab > Custom Level button, then disable “Allow Meta Refresh”.


5 posted on 03/07/2013 7:27:18 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

I use NoScript. I usually disables server-side scripts and that should stop the reloading.


7 posted on 03/07/2013 7:31:08 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Red Badger

I suspect you will find the solution to be all or nothing which means that you would lose updates on weather pages.

That might or might not be a consideration, depending on how interested you are in weather updates.


8 posted on 03/07/2013 7:36:25 AM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: Red Badger

Once the page loads the first time, hit esc. If you go to a link, do this again when you return to Drudge, after it loads again.

This works w/cbslocal, as well.


9 posted on 03/07/2013 7:37:24 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: Red Badger

How do you think Deudge gets a gazillion ‘hits’ on his website? Every time the page refreshes, it’s a new hit...and every time you click a link and click back it’s a new ‘hit’. It’s what keeps Drudge’s numbers up.


10 posted on 03/07/2013 7:39:01 AM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: Red Badger

http://www.mydigitallife.info/stop-and-disable-web-pages-auto-refresh-or-reload-in-firefox/


11 posted on 03/07/2013 7:39:18 AM PST by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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Every time the page refreshes, it’s a new hit...

Tricky. I did not know that.

12 posted on 03/07/2013 7:43:46 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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It’s 44 degrees outside! The widow ain’t open!.........


13 posted on 03/07/2013 7:52:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: MestaMachine
Every time the page refreshes, it’s a new hit.
Hits also includes "assets" on a page, like images. If a page loads with ten images on it, that's eleven hits.
14 posted on 03/07/2013 7:57:44 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Red Badger

But that’s how Drudge gets a billion page loads a year.


15 posted on 03/07/2013 8:00:28 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Red Badger

BTW, I’ve tried the recommended “solutions” in firefox for blocking auto-refresh and they broke a very large percentage of the other web pages I used because many of those pages need to refresh very occasionally, say in response to an input, and they were unable to refresh at all.


16 posted on 03/07/2013 8:25:39 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Red Badger

It’s too bad we couldn’t get Drudge to quit doing that and get Free Republic to automatically refresh.


17 posted on 03/07/2013 8:31:25 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Obama is the Chicken Little of politics)
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To: Boogieman
"disable “Allow Meta Refresh”."

Thanks man, That (sort of) helps. But now Drudge refreshes whenever I click on the Drudge tab (I presume only if it has had a meta refresh request while I was away.) Any idea of how to stop that? Thanks, NPS

18 posted on 03/07/2013 8:44:16 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Was thinking the same thing.........the fixes that the FReepers list work!.....Thanks again to everybody!!!!.........


19 posted on 03/07/2013 8:45:34 AM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: norwaypinesavage

I had to close FF then restart for the new settings to take effect..........


20 posted on 03/07/2013 8:46:35 AM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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