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Hi,
I'm bothered by the auto refresh function that you can find in some web sites like http://www.repubblica.it/ or http://www.corriere.it/ . You are reading and the page auto refresh and maybe even change the text you were reading...
This tip doesn't work: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/07/2 ... n-firefox/
It seems that they can refresh the page using scripts, that I have to permit to read correctly the page.
So the subject: is there a way to deny auto refresh on permitted websites using noscript?

There is the answer: http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopi ... 78&p=11851

Mc wrote:There is the answer: http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopi ... 78&p=11851

RefreshBlocker "does not block JavaScript-based and HTTP-based redirects", that is my problem. The same with Tools|Options|Advanced|General and tick the "Warn me whenever a web site tries to redirect me" checkbox, as you can read on the link I posted.

asd wrote:So the subject: there's a way to deny auto refresh on permitted websites using noscript?

I'm bothered by that too at times. RefreshBlocker and NoScript aren't sufficient to work on all problematic sites. There are GreaseMonkey solutions for some sites, such as Drudge Report, and Adblock Plus solutions for others such as the NY Times.

Surrogate Scripts are your friends.

Open about:config and create the following string preferences:

noscript.surrogate.antirefresh.replacement noscript.surrogate.antirefresh.sources

Giorgio Maone wrote:Surrogate Scripts are your friends.

Open about:config and create the following string preferences:
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It works flawlessly for corriere.it. For repubblica.it it works if you enable also "Warn me whenever a web site tries to redirect me".

Thank you