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[RangerX]

I too have been annoyed with this option. I did look at the error console (Ctrl+Shift+J) and found this. Hope this helps out.

Error: urchinTracker is not defined
Source File: http: <snip>
Line: 1089

Error: aFileExtension is null
Source File: <snip>
Line: 467

Error: GS_googleAddAdSenseService is not defined
Source File: http: <snip>
Line: 12

[magnoliasouth]

Does anyone know if there is an addon so that we CAN whitelist sites? If I were a programmer, this would be the one addon I'd actually write myself. While I love the feature, I hate the all or none mentality of it.

[kenup1]

Yes separate those two features.What's more what I am really interested is where the page is being redirected.Without any clue this feature is shot in the dark.Besides as some people talk about a white list isn't a solution.What if you add gmail to whitelist and sometime after a malware start to redirect gmail , you will never know if legitimate gmail or another program tries the redirect unless you have a visual clue every time it happens
OR": whitelist created on the basis of redirected page and not the source URL

[!sense]

Whitelisting is a must for this feature. You need to be able to use it selectively. There are legit reloads/redirects on frequently visited sites that get super annoying that can happen automatically while still blocking / warning on unexpected or risky sites. This implementation was only done halfway, this is a feature in development, with very limited usefulness in its current form.

[magnoliasouth]

Thanks !sense and those are my thoughts exactly. There should be an option.

[Mzbabiface]

Advanced, General tab, Accessibility, "Warn me when web sites redirect or try to reload the page". Do you have that
checked?

i love u it was driving me nuts! i couldnt upload vids! u made my day!

[Bovski]

This should be split into 3 options

1) Warn refresh
2) Warn Local redirect
3) Block Offsite redirect

[Bluefang]

There is a bug for that
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453077

[brucemc]

Well, I just went over to Bugzilla and voted that this was in fact an important bug to squash. I guess I am insane, as I was the whopping SECOND vote of importance, so it might get some attention when FireFox hits version 17.0 at this rate...

Come on folks - if you know how to code, give it some thought; if you are coding challenged as I am, get over there, sign up and VOTE!
Is it not important to 1) Distinguish between reloading vs. redirecting?
Is it not important to 2) Know where, if redirecting, redirecting would take you?
Is it not important to 3) Be able to whitelist/blacklist sites for reloading and redirecting???

Come on!!!

[VanillaMozilla]

By default this option is not checked, and you should just leave it unchecked. I know it sounds like a security option, but it isn't. It's an accessibility option. It's supposed to help you if you have limited vision or some other special problem. That's all it is. So if it bothers you, just leave it off. There's no way anyone is going to "fix" that bug.

[PhPgoed]

It is one of the accessibility features of Firefox:
Accessibility.blockautorefresh (MozillaZine KB)

operamail.com does this all the time annoying!
May I make suggestion disable for some web
sites as Cookie Monster does for cookies.

[dickvl]

You can vote here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423749 (please do not comment in bug reports, but vote instead to avoid bug spam)

[Guest]

Advanced, General tab, Accessibility, "Warn me when web sites redirect or try to reload the page". Do you have that
checked?

Thank you very much for this!

[Gopher John]

RefreshBlocker https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/992 will help with part of the problem. It can be used in whitelist or blacklist mode. From the AMO page....

RefreshBlocker is a small extension for the Firefox web browser. This extension will prevent your browser from following the forwarding specified by the refresh parameter of the META tag element. If such a refresh parameter is given on a web page, an infobox will be displayed at the top of the page.

Note: This extension does not block JavaScript-based and HTTP-based redirects. If you know a way how to do this, please let me know.

[sheehan_rs]

Please add a white list feature for this button!

Those of us who are weary of redirects would have the opportunity to investigate the site in question and decide whether to allow or not allow redirects.

This is a much more secure solution for those who want to have control over such functionality.