I use Firefox to access Facebook and Chrome for most everything else (for right now). Facebook has a bad habit of doing an Auto Refresh on your feed when you click on a photo, video, or read the comments, so that once you come back to your feed it's updated losing your place in the feed. Facebook doesn't do this every time but the longer you look at the comments/pictures/videos the more likely you are to get the refresh. This is stupid and Facebook should put a simple toggle to allow you to disable this "Feature", but they don't. Here is the only fix I've found that works, modifying a Firefox preference called accessibility.blockautorefresh.
Here's how to access and modify the preference:
NOTE: This blocks auto refresh on all sites, not just Facebook so if it negatively affect other sites you can simply toggle this back to false (disabled) which undoes this change.
1. In the Firefox address bar, type about:config and press Enter.
(You'll be presented with a warning. Click "I accept the risk and continue.")
2. In the search bar, type accessibility.blockautorefresh and press Enter.
3. The preference for accessibility.blockautorefresh will appear in the search results.
4. Double-click on the button (pictured below) to change its value to true (enabled) .
5. When your done it should like like the picture below.
There you go now Facebook will NOT auto-refresh while your reading comments or looking at a post or the posts picture/video/comments.
NOTE: This blocks auto refresh on all sites, not just Facebook so if it negatively affect other sites you can simply toggle this back to false (disabled) which undoes this change.
UPDATE: 5-23-2025: This only partially works, refreshes still happen but far less often.
