I Hate Autorefreshing Pages
Newspapers and whatnot seem to love their auto-refreshing pages these days just so they can get additional pageviews in and rotate ads. However, I end up opening a bunch of articles in new tabs, and the auto-refresh feature chokes the machine’s resources. If I or the offending newspaper site loses connectivity, the pages refresh themselves into “Cannot load page” messages.
Or sometimes a helpful message that my Web browser cannot handle it:
I’m running the latest Firefox. The problem lies on your end, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And if you hadn’t insisted on the refresh, we would not have had it at all.
