Disabling Automatic Redirection for Firefox?

Hi~
I use Opera sometimes and Opera has a built-in option where I can disable automatic redirection easily:

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/...titled-1-5.png

After I untick the box, pages can't redirect to other pages without my permission and I was wondering if I can use/there is a feature like this at Firefox too (without having to install an add-on).

I tried a few addons but they were all for resolving short urls or removing the referrers and such. Thanks for any suggestions.

To accomplish this in Firefox.. I believe that you can use the config.

Open a new tab or window, and type "about:config" into the address bar (without the quotations)

Firefox will give you a warning about voiding your warranty - just hit the button to accept.

On the list that comes up, use the filter at the top and type in: network.http.redirection-limit

On the line that matches, change the "value" to 0.

In your tools -> advance tab -> you can turn an option on that warns you whenever something tries to redirect you, comes witha cancel button as well I presume

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Originally Posted by fataltea

To accomplish this in Firefox.. I believe that you can use the config.

Open a new tab or window, and type "about:config" into the address bar (without the quotations)

Firefox will give you a warning about voiding your warranty - just hit the button to accept.

On the list that comes up, use the filter at the top and type in: network.http.redirection-limit

On the line that matches, change the "value" to 0.

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Thank you! This works! However... when I do this the page is frozen still. There is not an option for me to allow or not (or even see) to where the page was supposed to go. What I mean is, I want to see/know the redirected site as in opera:

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/...Untitled-3.png

it shows me the link of the site I typed is redirected to.
In this case

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google.com

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www.google.com

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so if I click on the link I go there.

firefox:
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/...titled-4-1.png

it doesn't go anywhere.

I guess there is nothing in the middle for Firefox? ^^;
I'm either redirected or not. Can't make the decision myself :XD:
Thank you for the tip, I didn't know about those options :)

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Originally Posted by KarumA

In your tools -> advance tab -> you can turn an option on that warns you whenever something tries to redirect you, comes witha cancel button as well I presume

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Yes, I know about that option and it is already checked, but I don't think that it works o_O Thanks for the suggestion though :)

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Originally Posted by seres

Thank you! This works! However... when I do this the page is frozen still. There is not an option for me to allow or not (or even see) to where the page was supposed to go. What I mean is, I want to see/know the redirected site as in opera

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Ahhh, I see what you mean. Yes, setting the redirect value to 0 will prevent any type of auto redirect, so it would not be optimal in most cases.

Could you tell me, which version of Firefox you are running? And the reason behind why you are looking for a way to disable redirects. Knowing the reason should help me find a better solution. :oops:

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Originally Posted by fataltea

Ahhh, I see what you mean. Yes, setting the redirect value to 0 will prevent any type of auto redirect, so it would not be optimal in most cases.

Could you tell me, which version of Firefox you are running? And the reason behind why you are looking for a way to disable redirects. Knowing the reason should help me find a better solution. :oops:

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I'm using Firefox 3.6 (haven't upgraded to 4 because of some compatibility issues with a few crucial addons).
The reason is there is a particular site I frequent, every time I open Firefox it tries to redirect(s) me to the index page from the page I was seeing last time. So I lost the page forever and I don't want to bookmark every single page I need to come back to ^^; since I have hundreds of bookmarks already XD
To be more clear:

I'm seeing a webpage >>> I close firefox >>> I open firefox >>> all the webpages from my last time are there but that particular webpage is redirected to the site's index page (cookies are accepted and there are no other problems)

Thank you for any further suggestions <3

Hmmm, well, I'm at a bit of a loss, there. When firefox reloads your previous session, it should only be loading from a cache or offline session of sorts. Without seeing the site in question, I can't be sure, but I almost think that perhaps what you need is an add-on to prevent pages from auto-refreshing. It could be a case where the site you are talking about has code in the header that automatically refreshes the page, and then from there, it follows a meta redirect to the site home.

IF the site you are using is auto-refreshing by META code, then you may want to try this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefo...ocker/?src=api

If that does not work for you, you might also try NoScript. This is a much more 'intrusive' addon, however, it can block javascript redirects and auto reloads, and has a built in whitelist so that you can still allow these things on trusted websites.

There are about:config options for auto-reload, however, I think that these make browsing quite difficult, as most websites utilize an auto-reload (such as banks, and shopping carts), and will no longer function correctly if they are disabled.

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Originally Posted by fataltea

Hmmm, well, I'm at a bit of a loss, there. When firefox reloads your previous session, it should only be loading from a cache or offline session of sorts. Without seeing the site in question, I can't be sure, but I almost think that perhaps what you need is an add-on to prevent pages from auto-refreshing. It could be a case where the site you are talking about has code in the header that automatically refreshes the page, and then from there, it follows a meta redirect to the site home.

IF the site you are using is auto-refreshing by META code, then you may want to try this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefo...ocker/?src=api

If that does not work for you, you might also try NoScript. This is a much more 'intrusive' addon, however, it can block javascript redirects and auto reloads, and has a built in whitelist so that you can still allow these things on trusted websites.

There are about:config options for auto-reload, however, I think that these make browsing quite difficult, as most websites utilize an auto-reload (such as banks, and shopping carts), and will no longer function correctly if they are disabled.

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That's a good idea! Disabling auto-refresh I mean. I don't really want to play with the config parts too much, I might end up messing everything up, but these addons are a great help, especially no script.
Thank you very much for your suggestions :pushup:

I'm glad that I could help at least a little bit. ^^; Hopefully Firefox will be fleshed out a bit more in that area in the near future.

I wish Opera and Firefox had a baby :XD: It would be the greatest thing ever.
I hope to see this option (disabling automatic redirection) in Firefox in the future too :mlfy:
Thanks again for your help~