Any way to auto-refresh a page on start?

[bschmi...@gmail.com]

I'm trying to setup a computer that will read out twitter feeds and refresh automatically to show the newest content, but I can't find a way to make the page auto-refresh without some initial user intervention. I'd like to be able to not even need a keyboard/mouse hooked up to this PC, but all of the options I've seen so far require me to click "Enable" or something similar in their Extension settings.

I don't really know if this is the right place to post, this may be a question regarding addons more than anything else.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

[Rav]

I use ReloadEvery. It does require you to click Enable once when you
initially load a web page, but as long as you stay on that page, it
keeps refreshing to however you long you set it to. If you need a
particular web page to "permanently" start refreshing even after
initially loading it (without having to click Enable once), I don't know
how to make it do that.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reloadevery/

[»Q«]

In <news:90155f94-9500-4d53...@googlegroups.com>,

bschmi...@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm trying to setup a computer that will read out twitter feeds and
> refresh automatically to show the newest content, but I can't find a
> way to make the page auto-refresh without some initial user
> intervention. I'd like to be able to not even need a keyboard/mouse
> hooked up to this PC, but all of the options I've seen so far require
> me to click "Enable" or something similar in their Extension settings.

I'd use a user script for that.
<https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/47394> is one, but you may find
others more suitable at the same site. To use user scripts, you first
need the Greasemonkey extension, <http://www.greasespot.net/>.

[bschmi...@gmail.com]

Both good suggestions so far. That script looks like it could be just the thing, I'll give it a try now.

[Sailfish]

My bloviated meandering follows what bschmi...@gmail.com graced us
with on 7/8/2013 12:01 PM:

Adding a meta refresh tag to your web page would be the simplest, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh

Another is using a Javascript auto-reload script, see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4644027/auto-reload-web-page

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[Jeremy Nicoll - ml mozilla groups]

Rav <Pa...@cais.com> wrote:

> I use ReloadEvery. It does require you to click Enable once when you
> initially load a web page, but as long as you stay on that page, it keeps
> refreshing to however you long you set it to. If you need a particular
> web page to "permanently" start refreshing even after initially loading it
> (without having to click Enable once), I don't know how to make it do
> that.

I would expect you could do that with a script in a macro scripting
application, eg AutoHotkey. The script would need to be written to look for
a particular window with a particular button in it, and would click that
when it found it. You'd start the script (probably) just before starting FF
to get the initial page.

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[bschmi...@gmail.com]

Actually I had already tried AHK to do this, but I found it to be a little bit too finicky for this. Far too many places for it to fail, esp with any script I could write.

[Christoph Schmees]

TabMixPlus may be worth a look.

Christoph

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[Was Greywolf]

On 7/8/2013 2:04 PM, bschmi...@gmail.com wrote:

I've read the other posts. I have FF set to ask Save and Quit? when I
close it. On restart, it reloads every saved page. Would that do what
you want?

HTH

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[bschmi...@gmail.com]

TabMixPlus was one of the ones I found that Automatically Refreshes great, but before it will do that you have to hit "Enable", it won't do it by default for a page, unfortunately. Thanks though, for the suggestion.