Anyway to keep page from refreshing?

I'm using FF ver 28 with Win XP.

How can I keep Web pages from being refreshed? Pages that keep
refreshing - as if I'm too stupid to do it myself, give me a pain when
they lose my place on the page and I have to scroll to find it again.

Netscape used to be able to do that.

 

By the way, I meant "Any way". )

 

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.support.firefox/O4FdCN0JxEs/RNEHhBwe384J


https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.support.firefox/Ey-TEvRMXdg/bAKvZfZcKz4J

 

No, a redirect is not my problem. My problem is that certain news
sites like Drudge have their pages automatically refresh themselves so
the reader sees any updates that have been added to the page since the
reader came to it. It's aggravating how often it happens while
perusing the initial home page of a news site. I don't understand why
Mozilla hasn't put in a way to stop this nonsense. Netscape had such
a setting years back.

 

The same Firefox setting applies to both redirects AND refreshes.
If you read the setting, it says (my capitalization)

Warn me when sites try to redirect OR RELOAD the page

The "RELOAD" means refresh.

The setting stops both refreshes and redirects. It worked the same
in Netscape years back.

Redirects have a delay before the redirect, just like refreshes.
Redirects can use the same mechanism as refreshes. The one difference
between a refresh and a redirect using this mechanism is whether the
target URL is the same as the page you are already on.
Stopping this mechanism stops refreshes as well as redirects.

 

Good grief, Charley Brown! How in the hell did I miss that? I guess
I quit reading after the word "redirect"? But after all this
time....?

Well, what in the bleep did you expect from a mumbler?

Thanks!

<slinks away in utter humiliation - mumbling, of course>