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Re: page RELOAD by Firefox

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On 9/18/2016 3:21 PM, 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.
>
Is this web page on the PWS or out on the internet?
Is the PWS using the same data connection you are using to access the 
web page?
Is there advertising on this page?
If you do not leave the page open in a tab, does your data allocation 
still get rapidly depleted?

Maybe with more information someone will have an alternative suggestion.

> 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
>

Another response already mentioned there are some add-ons related to 
refresh.

For a limited data connection you might also want to go through the list 
of plugins and change the settings for some of them to 'Ask to activate'.

If you have not already looked into them, maybe look into privacy 
badger, noscript, and some some kind of ad blocker.

Later, Seeker

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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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