Close the window
If you use IE, go to Tools > Internet Options > Security tab > Custom Level button, then disable “Allow Meta Refresh”.
I use NoScript. I usually disables server-side scripts and that should stop the reloading.
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.
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.
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.
But that’s how Drudge gets a billion page loads a year.
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.
It’s too bad we couldn’t get Drudge to quit doing that and get Free Republic to automatically refresh.
The refresh command is built into the webpage html. It could have been set for any number from every 30 seconds to every 5 minutes... the problem with turning off the feature in a web browser is that your telling the browser to turn that feature off for all web sites you visit. This then requires you to “refresh” pages manually. Its conceivable that the websites you revisit will show you the last cache version of the page and not the updated page the website wants you to see.