Written by Milan Potrok , IGEL COMMUNITY MEMBER OF THE YEAR
In our Community we had the request for a configuration that sutomatically refreshs a Firefox session every 5 minutes
For this task, I created a profile which helped in that case: custom-firefox-refresher-ca
Please be sure to review and understand what it's doing before you use it. I like to include logging, and sometimes variables, so that changes may be made outside of the script itself.
0.I've included animated-gif to show it in action.
It's a "custom-application" (runs as user). It can be run from the desktop shortcut, or the "hotkey" "Ctrl-Alt-Shift q". I've included a "progress-bar" that shows the next time it will refresh the browser. This overlay progress-bar can be turned off by setting the variable FFRefreshProgressbar = false. The other variables control the refresh interval, and verbose debugging messages to the syslog (journalctl).When it no-longer finds a visible firefox window, the custom-application exits.
1. UMS: Dynamic Variable settings:
There are a few variables you can override (also provided as attached VARIABLES XML file)
System -> Firmware Customization -> Environment Variables -> Additional:
2. Script with Comments:
3. Script ready to copy-and-paste into a custom-application:
(Same as above, but comments and line-breaks removed)
Also provided as attached XML file
Hope it works well, please let me know if you have some questions or comments!
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