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Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page

From Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page
Date 2017-07-25 12:00 +0200
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>From: phenomenalia@yandex.com

> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Hi Steve
> The add-on Tab Mix Plus has an option under Menu to add "Reload every ..." to the tab"s context menu. The add-on may be overkill if you just want that reload option, but I do know it works.
> Kind regards
> Jan
> 24.07.2017, 14:56, "Steve Kleene" <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>:
>> I"m looking for an automated way to have firefox-esr reload its window at
>> regular intervals. There"s a site to which I like to stay connected that
>> logs me off if the window is inactive for long.
>>
>> For the past few years I"ve been using the ReloadEvery plugin for this. With
>> the upgrade to firefox-esr 52, though, this stopped working, probably as
>> explained here:
>>
>> https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/
>>
>> I tried the newest ReloadEvery (v45) available online, but it still doesn"t
>> work. Before ReloadEvery, I used to set up a shell command that would
>> periodically do this:
>>
>> /usr/bin/iceweasel -remote openurl\([URL]\)
>>
>> The -remote call also no longer works. Any other ideas on how to do this?
>> Thanks.

How about making a local web page reloadpage.html where you include the
command to reload evert 234 seconds
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="234; url=~/myhtml/reloadpage.html" />
and make a table which includes the webpage you want to stay active on within your local
page.

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how to automatically reload a firefox page Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> - 2017-07-24 15:00 +0200
  Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page Jan <phenomenalia@yandex.com> - 2017-07-24 17:30 +0200
    Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-25 12:00 +0200
      Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> - 2017-07-25 18:10 +0200
        Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page Jochen Spieker <js@wim.re> - 2017-07-25 21:10 +0200
        how to automatically reload a firefox page Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> - 2017-07-26 15:00 +0200
    Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> - 2017-07-25 18:00 +0200

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