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Does anyone know how to stop a Facebook tab from auto refreshing?

Does anyone know how to stop a Facebook tab from auto refreshing?

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Go to about:config and try changing accessibility.blockautorefresh to true.

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No, that won't help and, if you changed that preference, you should change it back to the default. You may be able to find a user script which blocks auto-refresh. To install and use it you will have to install the Greasemonkey extension or one of the other monkeys.

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Try to avoid user script extensions like Greasemonkey if you can help it.

If the above about:config setting works, you can target Facebook specifically by adding the following line to uBlock Origin's "My filters" section:

facebook.com##^meta[http-equiv="refresh"]