Force a cached Web page to reload. Mac OS X Hints By Rob Griffiths, Contributor, Macworld FEB 21, 2007 4:00 pm PST.

Don’t you find it annoying when Chrome takes an additional second or two to reload a web page you had visited only recently? Google does, too -- and it is making things smoother. SEE ALSO ...

Keep an eye on that eBay auction in its closing minutes automatically with Page Reboot, a web service that refreshes a given web site every 30 seconds (or any interval you set).

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension ReloadEvery lets you automate the refresh process by allowing you to pick a time interval right from the context menu to reload any web page.

Over the past two years, Facebook’s cooperation with browser vendors Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox has dramatically improved web page reload speeds, according to the company. Working closely ...

That is exactly what Google has attempted to do in its Chrome mobile web browser, making page reloading not only faster but also consume less resources. Advertisement.

This JavaScript is useful when you have a page that needs regular refreshing but where you’d also like to offer the user the option of turning refresh on or off.

Web pages auto-refreshing can be frustrating, especially when you're in the middle of something important. Here’s how you can disable this feature in various browsers to improve your browsing ...