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Firefox 59 how to enable page redirect blocking?

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Used to be an option in Prefs>Advanced>Acessibility or in Privacy/Security. No longer seeing any UI option to do this.

Besides that, accessibility.blockautorefresh is set to true in the 59, but has no effect, where it does block redirect for same URL in the 52esr.

Used to be an option in Prefs>Advanced>Acessibility or in Privacy/Security. No longer seeing any UI option to do this. Besides that, accessibility.blockautorefresh is set to true in the 59, but has no effect, where it does block redirect for same URL in the 52esr.

Modified by mvk87

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Firefox should automatically stop re-directions and also notify you. Will have a small strip across the top and then in big blue letters on the page tell you is going to this site and asks if you want to allow it.

I would think you would have to reverse your changes as it may be interfering in how Firefox works now, or create a new profile to see. also https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work?as=u&utm_source=inproduct but can not find the auto redirect block. Just know it comes up for me all the time.

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That old accessibility feature -- intended to avoid disruption for the users of screen readers -- is not comprehensive and is easily bypassed by sites that want to bypass it. It also has the annoying habit of stopping desirable redirects. You probably need an add-on to handle this problem.

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Thanks, but do you know of an addon that can do this? Refresh Blocker, which I still use on my esr, has not (can not be) ported to Quantum.

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I'm not familiar with any add-ons related to redirects.