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| From | "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: page RELOAD by Firefox |
| Date | 2016-09-19 02:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <siUa5-6fv-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <siSL0-5wR-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | Murphy Retirement Home |
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:21:57 -0500 rlharris@oplink.net wrote: > 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? You could only open the page only when you wish to check the weather, then close it. Some web pages run a JS script when loaded. That script then schedules itself to run asynchronously (in the background) every so often. It may be that the browser checks for updates/changes far more often than every 10 minutes.
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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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