Webmail auto-refresh

For the next week, I'm working off someone else's PC so I'm using a webmail site (which uses the Squirrelmail system) to check email rather than set up Thunderbird. The problem with some webmail systems is that you have to keep refreshing the web page to see new emails. Some may have options to change this but I found a useful Firefox extension this morning called ReloadEvery which solved my problem quickly. You'll need the Firefox browser for this.

To set it up:

1. Download the extension and install (If Firefox pops up a message saying that it prevented the installation, click on Edit Options on the right of the message, click on Allow to add addons.mozilla.org to the allowed sites list, and try again)
   
2. Close and reopen Firefox
3. Now when you open your inbox page on webmail, right-click on the page, select Reload Every->1m (or whatever you want).
4. Again, right-click on the page and select Reload->Enable. The web page will now refresh every minute

There is a downside - if you're reading/writing an email and the screen refreshes then you could drop back to the main page so make sure to turn off the refresh (right-click, Reload->Enable) when you're using the system.

Of course, there are other good uses for this extension. You can use it to auto-refresh a news page. If your web connection goes down, you can set it up to auto-refreshing any webpage so you can tell when the connection comes back up (like leaving the lights on during a power cut :-) ). This can all be done with some scripting as well but this extension saves you that hassle.