Automatically refreshing a browser when a particular file in a directory changes?

Are there any add-ons that will cause a browser to automatically refresh a page when a particular file changes on disk?

leeand00

Posted 2010-06-04T17:13:39.263

Reputation: 14 882

Same on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1346716/how-do-i-make-firefox-auto-refresh-on-file-change

– Ciro Santilli 新疆改造中心法轮功六四事件 – 2014-12-11T17:08:16.737

can you give any more details on what you're trying to do exactly? – Andy – 2010-06-04T19:49:36.333

@Andy Sure, I have some unit tests that display their results as an HTML page, and my browser displays them. I want the page to automatically refresh when regenerate the html page that displays the results of the test. – leeand00 – 2010-06-04T21:40:19.040

Answers

I personally use a plugin-for-a-plugin to do this. In particular this auto-reload plugin which works with the Vimperator plugin for Firefox.

There's also this plugin directly for Firefox, but I've never tried it personally.

frabjous

Posted 2010-06-04T17:13:39.263

Reputation: 9 044

Sweet! I'll have to give that a try. I use Vim but I haven't really gotten used to Vimperator for Mozilla, maybe I'll have to do that. – leeand00 – 2010-09-15T14:43:22.870

As far as I know there are no extensions/functionalities in Chrome to do exactly what you want. But there are options to reload the file with set intervals.

For example ChromeReload or Auto-Reloader are 2 good examples of such extensions. You can configure the interval to your liking in both.

S.Hoekstra

Posted 2010-06-04T17:13:39.263

Reputation: 2 231

Tincr is a Chrome extension that does what you need.

Konstantin Spirin

Posted 2010-06-04T17:13:39.263

Reputation: 121