In <news:[email protected]>, »Q« <[email protected]> wrote:
> In <news:[email protected]>, > sean <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have set my Seamonkey [edit/preferences/appearance/content] to > > warn me when a page attempts to redirect or reload a page... am > > hoping to find a way to turn that off for my specific list of work > > related pages ... as opposed to turning that preference off browser > > wide... > > > > If that's not possible, > > It's not. > > > does anyone have an argument against giving up and turning it off > > browser wide? > > I can't imagine it will cause any problem at all. Turning it on only > affects meta http-equiv="refresh" redirects and reloads. > > AFAICT the only reason the ability to block those was introduced was > that pages were using them to fraudulently increase the number of > times banner ads were loaded. The ad industry has changed a lot > since then, and I haven't seen that annoyance in years. I just saw David Ross' post giving the pref name for it, which prompted me to think there might be another reason they introduced the feature, and there is. Pages that use meta refresh with a timer are extremely confusing to people who use screen readers and cannot see what is happening. <http://wayback.archive.org/web/20070714104552/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/02/08/howto-block-meta-refresh> The bottom line is still the same, no reason for you to worry about the setting. < _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
