Can I somehow stop news pages from auto-reloading while I’m reading them?
I don’t know who invented this but it drives me nuts.
Probably Fox News invented it, since it’s the only site I see that does that.
It’s horrible and annoying.
No, the New York Times does it as well.
Could you link to a few examples?
If you’re using IE, hit the ESC key when the page is loaded to the point you want to read. That should abort most running scripts.
I’ve never noticed this anywhere. Can you give an example?
Firefox has an option for this, under Options > Advanced > General. “Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page.”
This blog post shows what it looks like:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/02/08/howto-block-meta-refresh
I have heard that Drudge does it and then makes claims to large volumes of hits.
Firefox with noscript installed. You also get the added bonus of having less crap all over your browser window
The BBC does this with sports matches and the like.
Tried that, but I have lots of sites that reload for every operation, like my bank, credit card, and daily crossword puzzle. I wish that kind of option was on a visible button, like AdBlock. But it’s just too much trouble to change for individual sites.
The New York Times is the worst http://nytimes.com
Houston Chronicle http://chron.com
Also Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/
and http://Topix.com
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Among others