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Can one stop redirection blocking and prevent reloading the page when viewing source as well?

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sblachmann
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The Firefox default behaviour to reload a page for view-source even when it is already in memory is unnecessary and causes many difficulties when tracking CGI bugs.

This unnecessary reloading can be turned off by setting accessibility.blockautorefresh to true.

However, fixing these stupid page reloads this way introduces another hyper-annoying behaviour: then Firefox blocks redirects.

So this accessibility setting is bad in both possible settings. Is there a possibility to prevent reloading pages for view-source while still allowing redirects?

The Firefox default behaviour to reload a page for view-source even when it is already in memory is unnecessary and causes many difficulties when tracking CGI bugs. This unnecessary reloading can be turned off by setting accessibility.blockautorefresh to true. However, fixing these stupid page reloads this way introduces another hyper-annoying behaviour: then Firefox blocks redirects. So this accessibility setting is bad in both possible settings. '''Is there a possibility to prevent reloading pages for view-source while still allowing redirects?'''

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