Karsten M. Self wrote:
I'm looking for information on blocking or disabling the meta refresh tag: <meta http-equiv=refresh content="<time in seconds>"; url="<target url>" I'm using (usually) Galeon 1.2.5, with a squid proxy. Other browsers (w3m, dillo) either ignore or allow overriding meta refresh. I'm aware of Mozilla bug #83265: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83265 I'm currently doing research on sites in which it's convenient to load many pages and browse them at leisure offline. However they reset at 30 minutes... Gah! Approaches I'm looking at: - Disabling or overriding meta refresh with CSS. E.g.: if I can set in an override value of '<heat death of the universe>' and '#', most of the worse abuses should be dealt with. Or 'ignore'. I can't find any obvious CSS selectors for this though....- An HTML proxy rewrite. If I could simply s/<meta http-equiv= *refresh[^>]*>//...the problem would go away. Any suggestions for a rewriting proxy? There are a number of evils I'd like to fix.... wwwoffl looks like it has an option to ignore meta-refresh. - A browser plugin. Something that will block the action at the browser. Interestingly enough, it appears that MSIE actually has the option to block meta refresh, while Galeon doesn't. I'm shocked that there are actually user-friendly features in MS that GNU/Linux browsers lack. Anyone knowing where current Mozilla / Galeon / Firebird development is headed -- this information is also appreciated. Peace.
You could try locking the tabs[you need to install mozilla-tabextensions then it is an option when you right click on the tab[or you can lock all tabs]]. I am not real sure what it does, but it seems to block meta refresh for me. Also, just hitting Escape[ie Stop Loading] seems to block meta refresh for individual pages, though that doesn't scale well.
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