Answer by Niels Basjes for Altering Firefox "Address not found" page behavior
When you say "running Firefox on bare X11 in full-screen mode" I immediately assume you are running a *nix locally on this system.Under this assumption there is an other option: Install Apache locally...
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The extension TabMixPlus adds automatic page refresh timers to the rclick menu. Just rclick on a blank part of the webpage and choose a setting under 'reload every'. I'm not actually sure what it does...
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As well as the frameset option suggested by robertc, you could also make the page refresh most or parts of itself via a HTTP request made by client-side javascript.This would mean that the page would...
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One approach you can take is to point Firefox at a frameset instead of directly at your page, then add some javascript in the parent which reloads the frame. Since the parent page doesn't reload it...
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I have a (mostly) unmanaged computer stuck someplace not easily reachable that has only one purpose: to display a specific web page on a large screen connected to the said computer's video card. This...
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