{"id":15587,"date":"2018-09-14T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=15587"},"modified":"2018-09-14T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T22:25:09","slug":"change-firefox-settings-so-it-does-not-automatically-reload-tabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/change-firefox-settings-so-it-does-not-automatically-reload-tabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Firefox Settings So It Does Not Automatically Reload Tabs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Change Firefox Settings So It Does Not Automatically Reload Tabs<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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A big thanks to Sue R. for the inspiration and the idea for this tip.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you use Firefox and get into\u00a0 a situation where you become compromised with a tech support scam or by a malicious site, there are a number of ways yo can close the browser when you can’t close it normally. To see various ways of closing browser tabs or the browser itself, or forcefully close its processes, see our article here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

However, Firefox will automatically\u00a0 reload\u00a0 pages\/tabs that were open when it crashes – or when it was shut down incorrectly as would happen when you terminate the process using Task Manager or Taskkill or\u00a0 shut down or restart your computer with Firefox open.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a good thing and a bad thing. It’s a good thing if you have some favorite pages open that you use or go back to often;\u00a0 it’s a bad thing if you happen upon malicious Website or tech support scam.\u00a0Chrome has a different (and better) way of handling tabs that are open when it crashes (or when a user closes it incorrectly).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chrome asks if the user wants to restore the tabs that were open when Chrome crashed – or was terminated forcefully or shut down incorrectly. In a situation where a malicious site or tech support scam is encountered, a Chrome user has an easy option to make sure that malicious sites and\/or scams are not automatically restored when Chrome is reopened.\u00a0 A Chrome user has only to close the “Do you want to restore the tabs” dialog to avoid having pages\/tabs restored –\u00a0 and will open with the user’s start page instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

But if you are using Firefox and you want to make sure that Firefox does not automatically reload the\u00a0 pages\/tabs that were open when it crashes, or when you forcefully terminate its processes to avoid tech support scams or escape a malicious site, it’s easy to do. Just follow the instructions below:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1.\u00a0 Open Firefox<\/span><\/div>\n
2.\u00a0 Type:\u00a0about:config<\/code>\u00a0in the address bar.<\/span>
\n3.\u00a0 Click the “I accept the risk” button.<\/span><\/div>\n
4.\u00a0 Type\u00a0accessibility.blockautorefresh<\/code>\u00a0in the search box near the top<\/span><\/div>\n
5.\u00a0 Double click on the first item that appears in the search results to change its value from “False” to “True” (see the screenshot below).<\/span><\/div>\n
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You’ll need to restart Firefox before the changes will take effect.<\/span><\/div>\n
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After you do this,\u00a0 Firefox will no longer automatically reload\u00a0 tabs\/pages that were open when it crashes or when it was forcefully terminated to avoid scams and malicious Web content.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Change Firefox Settings So It Does Not Automatically Reload Tabs A big thanks to Sue R. for the inspiration and the idea for this tip. If you use Firefox and get into\u00a0 a situation where you become compromised with a tech support scam or by a malicious site, there are a number of ways yo can close the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,2659,1433,1681,1656],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15588,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15587\/revisions\/15588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}