On 21/5/22 2:07 pm, Russell L. Harris wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 10:18:59PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:I am unfamiliar with "TAB AUTO REFRESH icon (and function)".TAB AUTO REFRESH is an extension which automatically reloads the current page every [specified number of] seconds. I use it to refresh the weather bureau forecast web page about once an hour and the web page for my personal weather station about every five minutes. When installed, TAB AUTO REFRESH displays an icon with a countdown of the number of seconds until the next refresh. Clicking on the icon brings up a window for resetting the refresh interval. RLH
Whilst you conspicuously omit indication of where you are located, I have found that, here in Australia, the weather bureau has gone malicious, and blocks access where a web site visitor tries to reload a web page in less than a (unknown) specified period of time, which is somewhere around four hours after the web page was last reloaded.
I have found using the pws dashboard for a local weather station on the Weather Underground, to be both more reliable, and, more localised (e.g., for me, https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IWESTERN754), as the local Weather Underground is within about a kilometre, and, the weather bureau closest weather station, is about 10-15 kilometres away. The Weather Underground PWS dashboard updates, usually,about every 10-20s, I think.
-- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..............