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I'm using Firefox with the Auto-Refresh add-in to read all the SO-family sites, but everytime I'm trying to type a question or answer it refreshes and makes me start over. Is there some setting I can use so that it's more intelligent about it, or do I just have to disable the add-in every time?
Edit: ReloadEvery
Lance Roberts
Posted 2009-07-18T00:58:12.917
Reputation: 7 895
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You will have to disable it every time you want to type something up and not lose it from a refresh.
That is unless the project updates their add-on to detect if you're typing in a text field, or if you yourself go in and fix up the source code for that update.
Other than that, type fast or just switch it off when you're on a single question page.
random
Posted 2009-07-18T00:58:12.917
Reputation: 13 363
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Do you have JavaScript enabled? You should see an alertbox whenever you try to refresh the page. That won't happen for comments, though.
Maybe using another add-on in addition to AutoRefresh could solve the problem. I know Tab Mix Plus and ReloadEvery can't do domain-wide automatic page refreshing, but you can enable it for individual tabs. Disabling refresh for a tab when you're writing a response can override the other extension.
Edit: I can't find any trace of an AutoRefresh plugin. Are you using this Greasemonkey script enabled for the domain?
Nikhil Chelliah
Posted 2009-07-18T00:58:12.917
Reputation: 1 028
Follow the reloadevery tag to the other question to see what happened there... http://superuser.com/questions/13235/ip-address-spoofed-how-to-fix
– nik – 2009-09-18T13:38:13.143Thanks, I have mine set for 1 minute, hopefully that doesn't cause any problems. – Lance Roberts – 2009-09-18T16:44:54.863
1Link to the add-on so we know which one you're talking about – random – 2009-07-18T02:00:14.080
1Probably ReloadEvery, I have the same problem! Especially on twitter.com it sometimes refreshes mid-sentence :P – Ivo Flipse – 2009-07-18T05:56:10.290