Unnecessary auto-reloads/refreshes
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 10:30 pm
I didn't find this specifically in your FAQ, but this has been a long-standing minor annoyance with NoScript:
Sometimes after enabling or disabling a site-specific address for scripts, such as their static media domain, several or all tabs that I have open, which are not using that address and have no reason to reload, all auto-reload. Over a few years of using NoScript I have not been able to notice any pattern in why/when this happens, though I might find an instance of it almost every month, but my usual clue to it happening is when a Startpage tab that I have open asks about re-sending data in order to reload a search.
Has anyone else noticed this?
A typical use case that causes problems: say if I'm writing a blog article or forum post on a web form without frequent auto-saving or a preview button, while I browse through some other websites for research and fact-checking. If enabling JS on one of those sites causes the blog/forum page to reload, then work time can be lost.
This has taught me a habit of saving what I write in a local notepad long before testing its markup in a website's WYSIWYG form, though I don't know if you care much for new online writers out there who have to learn this the hard way. Maybe eventually they'll all be spoilt with a universally-implemented markup or auto-saving forms.
Sometimes after enabling or disabling a site-specific address for scripts, such as their static media domain, several or all tabs that I have open, which are not using that address and have no reason to reload, all auto-reload. Over a few years of using NoScript I have not been able to notice any pattern in why/when this happens, though I might find an instance of it almost every month, but my usual clue to it happening is when a Startpage tab that I have open asks about re-sending data in order to reload a search.
Has anyone else noticed this?
A typical use case that causes problems: say if I'm writing a blog article or forum post on a web form without frequent auto-saving or a preview button, while I browse through some other websites for research and fact-checking. If enabling JS on one of those sites causes the blog/forum page to reload, then work time can be lost.
This has taught me a habit of saving what I write in a local notepad long before testing its markup in a website's WYSIWYG form, though I don't know if you care much for new online writers out there who have to learn this the hard way. Maybe eventually they'll all be spoilt with a universally-implemented markup or auto-saving forms.