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    Question for Firefox users

    I'm using Firefox to keep tabs (no pun intended) on freight load boards when I'm sitting and looking for a load. Most of these boards refresh every so often and you see the new loads that have come in, or you can manually refresh when you want to. I lost a load earlier today because when the board refreshed I saw a load that wasn't there before and when I went to put a bid, the load was already booked. The only way that could have happened is if someone else refreshed at a different time and saw the load before I did. Now here's my question. Is there a way to set Firefox to refresh more often so I don't have to manually refresh each page? I keep four or five load boards open at a time on different tabs and it's rather tedious to keep going back and forth refreshing them faster so I don't miss anything. I know there's a geek on here somewhere who might know the answer.


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    Re: Question for Firefox users

    That sounds to me like an option that would be chosen at the website, not through firefox. Is there a refresh rate variable available on your particular website?

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    Re: Question for Firefox users

    Quote Originally Posted by WilyMoROCKS View Post
    That sounds to me like an option that would be chosen at the website, not through firefox. Is there a refresh rate variable available on your particular website?
    The site I was thinking of doesn't have a way to set that. Some of them refresh faster than others, but I was hoping there was a way to set the browser to refresh faster. I've missed a couple loads because I didn't see them fast enough.

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    Re: Question for Firefox users

    I use the Firefox add-on Tab Mix Plus which adds a "Reload Every..." feature to each browser tab that will automatically reload the content on that tab's page at specific time intervals.

    Roy's link will point you to other Firefox add-ons that do the same job.
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    Re: Question for Firefox users

    That worked like a charm. I should check those add ons more often.

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    Re: Question for Firefox users

    I am honestly stunned at all the functionality available in Firefox add ons. The Bazaar has kicked the cathedral to the curb.
    "Even a bad day at the ballpark beats the snot out of most other good days. I'll take my scorecard and pencil and beer and hot dog and rage at the dips and cheer at the highs, but I'm not ever going to stop loving this game and this team and nobody will ever take that away from me." Roy Tucker October 2010

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    Re: Question for Firefox users

    I installed that reload every feature and now all my load boards are refreshing every 15 seconds. I'm not missing any new loads. I lost out on a $1000 load today. Hopefully that doesn't happen again.

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    Re: Question for Firefox users

    Opera browser has the refresh every "#" seconds functionality built right in. I use Firefox on my pc, but use Opera at work since the IT department blocks some traffic in IE and frowns upon Firefox (for no good reason). It's a quick and good looking browser. It can't replace Firefox for me but it's much better than IE.

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    Re: Question for Firefox users

    Quote Originally Posted by HBP View Post
    Opera browser has the refresh every "#" seconds functionality built right in. I use Firefox on my pc, but use Opera at work since the IT department blocks some traffic in IE and frowns upon Firefox (for no good reason). It's a quick and good looking browser. It can't replace Firefox for me but it's much better than IE.
    Anything's better than IE. I honestly wasn't too disappointed when they stopped making it for the Mac.


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