What’s important is that you don’t change any settings you don’t fully understand here. This is when things get a bit gnarly and complicated, as you can immediately see: See that “ Custom level…” button I’ve highlighted approximately 2/3 of the way down the window? You’ll need to click or tap on that because none of the various default security zone settings disable meta refresh. Click or tap to launch it.Ĭhoose the “ Security” tab once it opens and you’ll see this set of choices and settings: That’s what you want, the Internet Options control panel. So let’s go hunting! Start by searching for “ internet options” in the Win10 search box: In fact, it’s not even within the Microsoft Edge program at all! You’ll find it in Internet Settings, but even there it’s pretty buried.
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Then again, the Windows 10 setting to disable page reload is rather ridiculously difficult to find. Of all companies, Google should understand why people might not want to have all this reloading happening 24×7, but as of this writing, it’s not a setting you can access. The good news is that you can disable this in Microsoft Web browsers, though surprisingly you can’t turn it off in Google Chrome.
Which would be a bit daft because the content certainly isn’t changing every 4 minutes!
For example, if I added this one line to this page - then every 250 seconds (about 4 minutes) it would reload. The actual HTML source sites add to their pages is super simple, which might be one reason why this shows up on so many sites. For some sites it’s great: If you’re actively reading a news site, having it refresh occasionally is a smart way for breaking news to bubble up to the top, but the problem is that there’s no differentiation of activity based on your focus: minimize the window and it’ll still reload every few minutes. Forget about ’em and they can be responsible for consuming a lot of bandwidth and CPU power on your computer, even while you’re away! This is known as the ever-annoying meta refresh, as it’s called in the biz. Ah yes, those pages that reload themselves every few minutes, for hours, days or even weeks.
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