Mozilla will shut down Pocket’s services on July 8, 2025. At that time users will no longer be able to access the Pocket website, apps and API. You can export your saved items and API data until October 8, 2025 before they are permanently removed. For more information, see this article.

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

BLOCKING Auto Refresh is Impossible?

  • 5 replies
  • 0 have this problem
  • 34 views
  • Last reply by Paul

I've just about given up using this browser as it's become less and less user friendly. I have spent a couple of hours searching the forums and online to find a way to BLOCK webpages from refreshing/reloading in Firefox for Android. Facebook etc.. I've searched geckoview and there is NO option for blocking this feature. the accessibility.blockautorefresh no longer exists and re-entering it does nothing. I've disabled every option possible and it doesn't do it. Battery consumption etc. There are no current extensions add-ons that work. I assume this was done to make the browser more favorable for site monetization but Firefox wasn't supposed to be geared towards that.

If anyone knows of a way to do this please please let me know. Otherwise I'm -><- away from deleting this app and just using Brave.

I've just about given up using this browser as it's become less and less user friendly. I have spent a couple of hours searching the forums and online to find a way to BLOCK webpages from refreshing/reloading in Firefox for Android. Facebook etc.. I've searched geckoview and there is NO option for blocking this feature. the accessibility.blockautorefresh no longer exists and re-entering it does nothing. I've disabled every option possible and it doesn't do it. Battery consumption etc. There are no current extensions add-ons that work. I assume this was done to make the browser more favorable for site monetization but Firefox wasn't supposed to be geared towards that. If anyone knows of a way to do this please please let me know. Otherwise I'm -><- away from deleting this app and just using Brave.

Chosen solution

I switched to Brave. Works flawlessly. RIP FF, I'll miss you.

Read this answer in context 👍 0

All Replies (5)

Hi

This is something that our developers are aware of and are looking into. You can follow progress on this work at:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1752594

Helpful?

I'm not using Fenix, Night, or any of the other builds. This isn't when tabbing, it occurs even within the same tab while on a website like Facebook. It continually refreshes content real time

Helpful?

It's not auto refresh, it looks like a memory issue. So blocking auto refresh wouldn't help you. Try to close some unnecessary apps.

Helpful?

Chosen Solution

I switched to Brave. Works flawlessly. RIP FF, I'll miss you.

Helpful?

Thank you for your feedback.

Helpful?

Ask a question

You must log in to your account to reply to posts. Please start a new question, if you do not have an account yet.