On 5/5/2015 8:03 PM, »Q« wrote: > 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. >
I actually have a PrefBar checkbox to toggle the preference. I like to get my national and international news from a particular provider. I would visually scan down the headlines and launch tabs for the articles I wanted to read. While reading an article, the home page -- on a timer -- would redirect to another page that I did not want. Thus, I would disable redirects while reading the news. About a year or two ago, they redesigned their site; and redirection no longer happens. -- David E. Ross I am sticking with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 until saved passwords can be used when autocomplete=off. See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433238>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
