Firefox won't refresh--flashing refresh button

Post by **5eraph** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:49 pm

Does anybody know what this means? Google points me to many useless pages whenever I'm looking for Firefox documentation, probably because I don't know the developer's term for a feature, like "throbber."

What keywords should I use to find solutions? Does anybody have a link to official Firefox documentation?

shiner · Post by **shiner** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:49 pm

Here are the links I know about:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Knowledge_Base
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/home
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

I also visit this forum from time to time:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=49

Edit:
My searches on the "mozilla firefox flashing refresh" button got quite a number of hits.
What I found:
It appears that very dynamic (constantly updating) or script heavy sites can cause this issue.

Actually, I have seen this when I check someone's hotmail account for them.

Post by **5eraph** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 6:18 pm

It happens when I visit here or MSFN sometimes. Not as much as it once did. But it still bothers me that I don't know why it happens on sites that aren't "script heavy" sites. I'm not sure I agree with that explanation...

It's the reason I'd like to see a developer explain it, or official documentation describing it. The only plugins I use are Flash Player 11.5 and Java 7u9. Google has not been friendly with me on this.

Post by **mooms** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:40 pm

Never encountered this behavior, but i use Noscript, so any non essential script is blocked.

Post by **5eraph** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:41 pm

Well, Ctrl+F5 works on MSFN to force a refresh. Good enough for now. Thanks for the replies, guys.

crashfly · Post by **crashfly** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:12 pm

mooms wrote:Never encountered this behavior, but i use Noscript, so any non essential script is blocked.

I generally use this behavior also. However, I have noticed "similar" behavior when working on a local file (the local file had form elements). It would not refresh the styles / form elements properly. I had to close the page and re-open it in another tab.