how to refresh firefox browser automatically

How to refresh firefox browser automatically code#

The reason I did it that way is because at first, the person who was requesting it of me asked for Firefox to become the active window. It should always go to the parent window of Firefox.

WinActivate, UltraEdit Replace UltraEdit with UEStudio if you are using UEStudio, or whatever appears consistently in an editor that you use. IfWinExist, UltraEdit Replace UltraEdit with UEStudio if you are using UEStudio, or whatever appears consistently in an editor that you use. But hey, I already program in 12 languages, so AHK isn't that hard to pick up.) I imagine just about everyone here can figure that one out, but I'll include it for those who are new to AHK (like me. Now, if you're one of those people who have a free editor, and you can't assign an external executable to a hot key within your editor (then you just don't know what a decent editor is), then you can always change up the script to include a hot key. WinActivate, UltraEdit Replace UltraEdit with UEStudio if you are using UEStudio. IfWinExist, UltraEdit Replace UltraEdit with UEStudio if you are using UEStudio. He wanted the editor to remain active, as his browser was on his secondary monitor. Or you can remove the reactivation of your editor entirely. Also, if you want your editor to return focus, change that below as well. Be sure to change the key sent if your browser uses something other than F5 to refresh.

How to refresh firefox browser automatically code#

The beauty of this is that you can change the code easily for any browser.

However, it is intended for those who are new to AHK. I know most people here could write it blind-folded. He just needed to copy/paste the following code, compile, and assign it as a user tool in UltraEdit, and UltraEdit will automatically launch it when he presses a hotkey from within UE. A user on the UltraEdit forums asked for an AutoHotKey script that would allow him to 'Refresh' the web page currently displayed in Firefox while he was editing the page in UltraEdit. This is about as simple as a script gets.