With Opera you can set to refresh the webpage at any time you want, so you could go for a shower and as you come back the page has reloaded for you :)
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With Opera you can set to refresh the webpage at any time you want, so you could go for a shower and as you come back the page has reloaded for you :)
Auto-reload extension for Firefox exists.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madboy
It's pretty simple: if Opera has a cool feature, you can be sure that there's a Firefox user out there who'd rather implement it as an extension than switch to Opera. Voila, Firefox has the feature too.
That example was one of the worst I've ever seen. For the plain reason that it doesn't work very well. However, there are practical uses for the reload and I have had the extension a few weeks ago. I don't have it anymore, because at the time I switched to using beta, it wasn't available for it.
I still don't really see a point raising up Firefox vs. Opera discussions: they're almost in the same boat basically. Both Firefox and Opera render the standards pretty well. The biggest difference comes from the thing, that Opera is a free closed source program whereas Firefox is a free open source program. So really, you'd be fighting for that.
Of course there are the basic feature differences, though the newest Opera is so close to Firefox in appearance that many unknowleadgeable don't even distinguish the two from each other.
But for the point: if you use anything else than IE, I'm fine with that. And so should you, because it all makes the web a better place overall and makes the future bliss of easy web development finally to come true. Note that I'm not against IE7 yet as it looks like it'll support a lot of stuff better than IE6. When it finally comes.
Still would never use IE, even if it made beer, actually id change now if it did :)
I used to use the Fx Reloader, until it freaked out once too often. I got a call asking why I refreshed the page 1 million times over a period of a few days. I stated that Fx Reloader freaked out a few times, and refreshed continuously until I shut down and re-opened Fx.
I used it to not get auto-logged out of a system every 15 minutes. I had to agree to remove it before they'd let me access the server again! They were talking about increasing the timeout period to a few hours, but nothing's changed since.
I would look into Opera if I thought it worked, though. I'd get banned if it happened again, though.
I also have a problem with the new version of FoxClocks, which I worked around.
It changed the time for my timezone by an hour. I just substituted the next time zone as the correction, and it's working fine. Maybe daylight savings time will resolve things.
The refresh thing is built in, and ive had no problems yet, very useful for refreshing discussion boards
that's one point in its favor then
Was it Reload Every you used or some other extension?
I'm pretty sure that it was Reload Every. It was the only one that I could find on the extension page.
This?
I've never tried Opera, but I love FF's ctrl+L shortcut that highlights the location for you.
I always press F6 for that. Which I think works in IE too.
Yes. That was it. I had it set to 5 minutes, and it would just freak out sometimes, and refresh constantly. When I tried it with vbf, it did the same thing when it freaked.
Hey, it does work in IE too. That's good to know, but I still don't plan on using IE.Quote:
Originally Posted by CornedBee
I made a great reloader in VB6 back in the day. It was far better than anything for FireFox or Opera tbh. It had a lot of features that either browser doesn't really need. You could set it to reload as often as you like down to the milisecond or to reload as soon as the page finished. You could also have it reload an unlimited array of URLs randomly. You could have up to 3 minibrowsers reloading at once, and you could have them stop reloading if the page contained specific data.
Another point I'd like to make about FireFox is the incredible amount of PUBLISHED books about how to increse it's speed. The speed test results you provided show that firefox is not the fastest, but it was in the top 5 for each test. With just the knowledge of only one of the books, I'm sure the top 5 could be changed to top 1.
I need it for a secured site. It's asp, also, so kind of hard to parse.
Post the code or a link and I'll try it though.
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Originally Posted by dglienna
You need my reloader?
It just uses the default webbrowser control in vb6.
I'd like to see the code. Post a link and I'll see if it works any better.
Alright. I'd like to forewarn you that this was not written for anyone else to see to be quite honest, so there's a lot of "magic numbers".
There's also a bug in how I save the URLs in the list to a .cfg file (or some kind of file... I dunno) and it usually misses one or something. I found this bug at about the same time I quite VB6 and moved to C#, and didn't even attempt to find what causes it and fix it.
ANYWHO! here's the source. do with it what you please.
http://www.clankoa.com/reloader.rar