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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.........
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/07/2013 7:23:00 AM PST
by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/07/2013 7:27:03 AM PST
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: Red Badger
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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.)
To: Red Badger
If you use IE, go to Tools > Internet Options > Security tab > Custom Level button, then disable “Allow Meta Refresh”.
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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.
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posted on
03/07/2013 7:31:08 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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.
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.
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.
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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.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
03/07/2013 7:39:18 AM PST
by
Calamari
(Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
To: MestaMachine
Every time the page refreshes, its a new hit... Tricky. I did not know that.
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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)
To: UB355
It’s 44 degrees outside! The widow ain’t open!.........
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posted on
03/07/2013 7:52:41 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: MestaMachine
Every time the page refreshes, its 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.
- Visit - Is someone who comes to your Web site and looks around a bit.
They may go to one page or they may go to 100 pages, but they're still only visiting once.
- View - Is how many pages were seen by that visit.
- Hit - Is how many physical resources were requested from the server by that visit.
Pages are made up of many items (images, text, etc). Each of those is a hit, while a view is the page itself.
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posted on
03/07/2013 7:57:44 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Red Badger
But that’s how Drudge gets a billion page loads a year.
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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)
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.
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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!)
To: Red Badger
It’s too bad we couldn’t get Drudge to quit doing that and get Free Republic to automatically refresh.
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posted on
03/07/2013 8:31:25 AM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Obama is the Chicken Little of politics)
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
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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)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Was thinking the same thing.........the fixes that the FReepers list work!.....Thanks again to everybody!!!!.........
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posted on
03/07/2013 8:45:34 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: norwaypinesavage
I had to close FF then restart for the new settings to take effect..........
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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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