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Stop tabs from automatically refreshing to top of page

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Dynamic
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Stop tabs from automatically refreshing to top of page. Many people have this problem and I don't find a fix. One article states to go to Options and "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page," but I can't find options.

Stop tabs from automatically refreshing to top of page. Many people have this problem and I don't find a fix. One article states to go to Options and "Warn me when websites try to redirect or reload the page," but I can't find options.

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zeroknight
zeroknight
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You can disable meta refresh with uBlock Origin by adding the following line to the "My filters" tab for each site: 

website.com##^meta[http-equiv="refresh"]
cor-el
cor-el
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Note that a lot of websites use JavaScript to refresh the page and possibly set a timer to trigger this automatically (e.g. drudgereport does this). In this case there is no meta-refresh, but JS can set document.location or use other ways to refresh the page.

Can you post a link to pages where this happens ?

Dynamic
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It's on Twitter, and seems to be better using Chrome. But I'm not posting links. I'm looking at my followers, but when I click on the tab in Firefox, the list refreshes to the top of the list and I'm lost to find where I was

zeroknight
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Does it still happen in Troubleshoot Mode?