How can I block page autorefresh in Google Chrome?

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G M picture G M · Aug 16, 2013 · Viewed 41.9k times · Source

I would like to stop autorefresh page in Google Chrome, because it is a very annoying and memory consuming issue and I can't work with the developers tools. I'm trying to delete the refresh and setTimeout function from the script using Chrome's developers tools but I have no results. How can I block this annoying feature even for a while from the console?

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Konrad Dzwinel picture Konrad Dzwinel · Aug 19, 2013

Since <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="300; URL=?refresh_ce"> removal using DevTools is not sufficient (it doesn't stop page from refreshing) I've executed this code in the console: window.onbeforeunload = function(){ return 'Reload?';}. onbeforeunload event will fire before page reload and you'll be able to choose to abort reloading. From what I've tested the dialog shows up only once.

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