page RELOAD by Firefox

From	rlharris@oplink.net
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	page RELOAD by Firefox
Date	2016-09-19 00:30 +0200
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My limited G4 data allocation is being depleted much too rapidly for my
budget.  I suspect that the culprit is the web page of a personal weather
station (PWS) in which page measurements are updated every ten minutes.  I
keep a Firefox window open to monitor the web page.

I do not understand the mechanism, but every time I click on the window or
tab in which the PWS web page is displayed, I see the latest data, without
clicking the Firefox RELOAD button.  Thus, it appears to me that the PWS
web page somehow is notifying Firefox every time the web page is updated,
and that Firefox is automatically loading the update.

Is there a way to keep Firefox from automatically reloading this
particular web page?  Or am I misunderstanding what is happening here?

RLH

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page RELOAD by Firefox rlharris@oplink.net - 2016-09-19 00:30 +0200
  Re: page RELOAD by Firefox Terence Levings <terence.levings@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 01:00 +0200
  Re: page RELOAD by Firefox "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> - 2016-09-19 02:00 +0200
  Re: page RELOAD by Firefox Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-09-19 02:20 +0200
    Re: page RELOAD by Firefox rlharris@oplink.net - 2016-09-19 06:20 +0200
      Re: page RELOAD by Firefox Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-09-19 22:40 +0200
  Re: page RELOAD by Firefox Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2016-09-19 02:30 +0200

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