How can I prohibit Slate.com from periodically refreshing page?
I go to Slate.com for my daily news fix. Slate periodically refreshes the page (every 5 minutes?) and this is very annoying, especially when I am nearly at the bottom and the refresh takes me to the top again. How can I disable the auto refresh?
Issue 2 with Slate.com: At the top of the Slate home page there is bar with the words Briefing, News & Politics, Arts, Life, etc, etc. What drives me almost insane is that when my mouse cursor travels over one of these words a pop up pull down menu instantly appears and of course blocks what I may be trying to view. I need to maneuver the mouse to make the always unwanted pop up menu disappear.
It is obvious why this bar was strategically placed at the top of the page. Slate hopes to attract users to reading additional topics. I think we should have a choice to disable this pop-up.
In summary, is there a way of disabling:
1. the auto page refresh
2. disabling pop-up windows when the mouse cursor passes over words coded to react in this manner.
I believe we the users should be in control what features we want active or not.
I use and have explored NoScript and AdBlock for solutions but no luck so far.
Thanks.
被選擇的解決方法
You can create a new bookmark (right click the Bookmarks Toolbar) and paste the above posted code in the location field.
Open the slate.com web page and click the button with the bookmarklet that you have created while that page in on display and has finished loading. Hopefully that will stop the reload. You need to run that bookmarklet each time you (re)load that page.
If it doesn't work then post a link to a specific page then I will check it out.
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Try to run this bookmarklet on that page :
javascript:window.clearTimeout(window.timeout); refresh=null; void(0);
If you mean the menu bar on that page then you just have to avoid hovering the mouse over it.
Thanks for your quick response. Despite 35+ years of computer experience, I have no idea on how to make a bookmarklet, nor how to insert the javascript you provided. On my FF Bookmarks toolbar, I have bookmark named Slate, and the location contains http://slate.com/ Where do I insert the javascript?
BTW. the NoScript folks gave me 2 items to add to about:config to solve this - neither worked.
Many thanks......
選擇的解決方法
You can create a new bookmark (right click the Bookmarks Toolbar) and paste the above posted code in the location field.
Open the slate.com web page and click the button with the bookmarklet that you have created while that page in on display and has finished loading. Hopefully that will stop the reload. You need to run that bookmarklet each time you (re)load that page.
If it doesn't work then post a link to a specific page then I will check it out.
It worked (it stopped Slate.com's periodic and automatic page refreshes). Thanks Cor-el.
I must also congratulate you for explaining in 3 sentences how to create and use a bookmarklet. I had previously read several explanations online and all were quite voluminous and it was impossible to find a concise "how to" in all the verbiage.
While your solution works perfectly, it is a 2 click deal. Click on the bookmark for Slate.com then follow with a click on the bookmarklet (I named it SlateNL - NL for no load). Is there an easy way of adding code right into FF's bookmark properties to accomplish this function just by clicking on the bookmark itself? Not a big deal, just curious.
I have pursued my other Slate annoyance (where pop up pull down menus instantly appears when my mouse cursor travels over one of these words at the top of the Slate home page) with NoScript and AdBlock support.
Again, many thanks.
You're welcome.
A possibility is to convert the bookmarklet to a Greasemonkey script that automatically runs on the website.