Disable automatic Meta refresh/redirect of websites in browser for security reasons[how to]
Generally speaking, Meta refresh is a method used by some websites to instruct a web browser to automatically refresh/redirect the current web page after a given time interval.
You can see this type of refresh/redirect especially in media sites. This is some times annoying or can be used for malicious purposes by redirecting you to a malicious site.
If you don’t like this feature, you can disable this in your browser. Here is how to disable this in Internet Explore/Chrome, Firefox and Opera.
Internet Explorer: Go to Tools - Internet options - Security tab - Custom Level button - Miscellaneous category - set "Allow Meta refresh" to Disable.
Firefox: Go to Tools - Options - Advanced - General - Accessibility and tick the option next to ‘Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page’. Alternatively you can use extension RefreshBlocker.
Opera: Go to Preferences - Advanced - Network and uncheck "Enable automatic redirection".
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9:35 PM, March 12, 2010
where is it for google chrome?
3:13 PM, March 13, 2010
@ Anonymouse,
I think they have blocked all refreshes completely in chrome
1:14 PM, July 16, 2010
wish they had an option in chrome for this and no they did not block all meta refreshes in chrome. Why say chrome in the article if you have nothing for it?
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