Can I get Firefox to Auto-Reload like Opera?

manoz · 5 Sep 2006 at 20:24

Hello, basically want to know whether there is anyway I can get Firefox to auto-refresh a page after a certain interval like I can in opera. Can't seem to find anything in the options. Cheers if you have any insight.

tolien · 5 Sep 2006 at 20:38

Not without an extension like ReloadEvery.

Hxc · 5 Sep 2006 at 20:39

Google it mate

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/115/

Arse, beaten!

manoz · 5 Sep 2006 at 20:50

Hey Cheers for that but the darn thing won't work since I'm using version 2.0b2 of Firefox. Oh well, I'll wait till it gets updated. Cheers again.

tolien · 5 Sep 2006 at 21:03

It works fine for me (in either latest nightly) - you just need to either

Download it
Change extension from xpi to zip
Open it
Edit install.rdf to change MaxVersion to 2.0
Change extension back to xpi
Install from there

Or use the Nightly Tester Tools extension to override the version check.

manoz · 5 Sep 2006 at 21:15

tolien said:
It works fine for me (in either latest nightly) - you just need to either

Download it

Change extension from xpi to zip

Open it

Edit install.rdf to change MaxVersion to 2.0

Change extension back to xpi

Install from there

Or use the Nightly Tester Tools extension to override the version check.

Holy Schmokes !!! You are awesome!!!! It worked!!. *bows*

porkrind · 5 Sep 2006 at 23:21

opera > firefox tbh

manoz · 5 Sep 2006 at 23:40

porkrind said:
opera > firefox tbh

Yea I use both equally really but prefer Opera cos it renders pretty fast. Was just trying out the new Firefox 2 Beta, the spell checker is useful

roid · 6 Sep 2006 at 08:33

Been using firefox for a while now, but i find after browsing for a couple of hours the memory usage seems to sky rocket. Tryed a few fixes mentioned after searching via google, but to no avail. Might give opera a go. Is the memory footprint similar to firefox?

manoz · 6 Sep 2006 at 12:39

I know what you mean with Firefox and the RAM issues, it just slows to a crawl after about an hour if I have several tabs open. Opera is more responsive and feels like it uses less RAM. I've never had the need to check really unlike on firefox!

v0n · 6 Sep 2006 at 14:00

At start Opera use less memory than Firefox (which doesn't mean it use a little of it) but it's really visible under heavy use - 20, 30 pages open in Opera, the memory footprint increase is marginal, while firefox just seem to multiply in memory. Both browsers suffer from the same single process threading issue - unlike tab browsers based on IE if you use the same page in multiple windows with multiple logins, last login resets properties and cookies of all of them... It's about time they did something about it...