Harry, I also could not find that flag in my instance of Chrome or Edge. It's possible that Google removed it. I guess I'm a little unclear as to why you want to prevent a page from refreshing. With the auto refresh feature set to off you may still see some data within a page changing if the page is set to update that data, such as a page reporting on an updated stock ticker.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Brown <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 7, 2023 11:19 PM
To: David Goldfield <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] how to keep web pages from refreshing in Chrome
Hi David,
I have that set to off, but it didn't work, the page still refreshes.
I'm going to let you see what I found on google.
You can try this, if you use chrome, and see if it works for you.
How to keep Chrome from letting web pages refresh step 1. Open Google Chrome and type "chrome://flags" into the address bar.
without the quotes.
step 2. Press Ctrl+F (or Command+F on a Mac) to open the search box.
step 3. then type "Tab Freeze" into the box.
without the quotes.
Harry's note--I tried the find and it said no results.
end of note.
step 4. Next to "Tab Freeze," select "Disabled" from the drop-down menu.
Restart Chrome for the changes to take effect.
Harry
On 6/7/2023 10:00 PM, David Goldfield wrote:
> Harry,
> While I'm not aware of a setting in Chrome that can prevent page refreshes JAWS has a setting that may do what you want.
> From a Web page press the JAWS key with the letter V for the Quick Settings dialog.
> In the edit field type "refresh" without the quotes.
> Arrow down and you'll find a Page Refresh option. The default is set for Automatic but if you press the space bar you can set this to Off.
> There are two Page Refresh settings. The first is global, affecting all pages. The second is for the currently loaded Web page.
>
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> Hi all,
>
> First, to David and Mike, thanks for the posts about the difference between f5 and jaws key escape.
>
> Now my question.
>
> I looked in all the settings, for chrome, and I could not find how to stop chrome from refreshing web pages.
>
> Does anyone know how to do that?
>
> Harry
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