For a safer, less annoying experience

Among the most annoying features of the Internet, Meta Refresh is an anachronistic relic of the past that seems to exist only as a tool for black hat website owners. Fortunately, Internet Explorer gives you the ability to disable meta refresh as both a security measure and a way to reduce annoying automatic refreshes of web pages.

A Meta Refresh is nothing more than a short piece of HTML code that automatically reloads a web page after a certain number of seconds. This code can also redirect your browser to a new web page. The Meta Refresh code looks like this:

This particular example would redirect you to http://www.newpage.com after 5 seconds. If you set the CONTENT variable to zero, the page will automatically refresh without loading the page first.