Unfortunately, recent changes to Chrome have all but eliminated the need for those extensions so they no longer exist in the Chrome Web Store. Disabling auto-refresh was once something that could be quickly done via third-party extensions. Let’s start with Google Chrome, the most popular browser. Related: How to Copy URLs of All Open Tabs in Google Chrome Disable Auto-Refresh in Chrome (Brave and Opera)
To make your life a little easier, we show you how to disable auto-refresh on all the major browsers.
Today, features like auto-refresh are designed to help us, but sometimes they can get in the way, causing videos or text to reload when we’re in the middle of using them.
There was a time when web pages were static once they loaded – no post-processing changing web pages before your eyes, no funny business.
