#Firefox refresh page addon manual#

Security certificate and device settings.

These items and settings will be removed: Add-ons stored in other locations are not removed (although any modified preferences are reset). The refresh feature removes add-ons normally stored inside the Firefox profile folder (such as extensions and themes). The refresh feature creates a new profile folder and saves your important data.

#Firefox refresh page addon manual#

You can also do a manual refresh by creating a new profile and transferring your important data to the new profile.įirefox stores all your settings and personal information in a profile folder. For example, you could treat the rule list as a simple blacklist, or you could treat the rule list as a simple whitelist by placing various allow rules above a wildcard block rule, or you could cook up you own scheme, such as creating a set of rules to block all redirects except for those that end in an image file extension or those that originate from example.Note: There's a Refresh Firefox button in the Firefox Troubleshoot Mode Safe Mode window, if you can't start Firefox normally. The flexibility of the rule system makes it possible to exercise both coarse and fine-grained control. You can block redirects based on their source (useful for screening redirection services) or destination (useful for stopping DNS error hijacks). = Configuration = NoRedirect operates using a customizable list of rules. NoRedirect can be configured to stop such nuisances. More often than not, these measures, instead of being helpful, just end up disrupting the user's browsing experience, making it difficult to fix simple errors such as typos or the leaving off of a few characters when copying and pasting an address. * Stopping 'smart' error pages - There are some sites that, instead of displaying a standard error page, will redirect you to the site's main page or to a 'smart' error page. By blocking redirects originating from known URL shortening services, NoRedirect can be configured to act as a gatekeeper to make sure that all redirection service URLs are screened. While some services offer 'previews' if you set a cookie, not all services offer this feature.

* Previewing/screening 'shortened' URLs - Among the problems of URL shortening services is not being able to tell where a URL leads until it is too late. In addition to suppressing such redirects, NoRedirect will also restore the browser's native behavior: the browser will display its built-in DNS error message, and the browser's keyword search feature, if enabled, will be protected from interference caused by these DNS hijacks.

Such user-hostile services are now employed by virtually all major ISPs and even some domain registries-many users have experienced the frustration of being redirected after typing '.com' as '.cm'. Every time I hit a DNS error-by mistyping an address, clicking on a link with a typo, leaving off a letter when copying and pasting, etc.-I would be redirected to Verizon's 'helpful' search page, which meant that, if I wanted to fix my typo, I had to retype the entire address. = Examples of Usage = * Stopping DNS error redirects - The original impetus for NoRedirect came from my frustration over Verizon's search service, for which opting out was not always possible.