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Live Bookmarks Refresh Rate

[For Firefox users]
Sometimes people ask how often Firefox refreshes live bookmarks.
The default is set to 30 minutes, but you can change that.
Enter about:config in the location bar.
Right-click anywhere within the list of preferences and select New -> Integer.

When you get asked to enter the preference name, enter:
browser.bookmarks.livemark_refresh_seconds

You will then be asked to enter a value. Set the value to whatever refresh rate you’d like. The unit for the value is seconds, so if you wanted the refresh rate to be 5 minutes, the value would be 300 (as in 300 seconds).

Posted by Chris Ilias on Thursday, August 11, 2005, at 1:16 am. Filed under Firefox, Mozilla. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

{ 16 } Comments

  1. Alex | August 16, 2005 at 5:59 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for this, just what I was looking for :-D

  2. Anonymous | August 24, 2005 at 10:44 am | Permalink

    Extremely helpful blog entry… thanks a lot!

  3. Kristopher Ives | August 27, 2005 at 5:06 pm | Permalink

    Great information, helped me tons. Works in Firefox 1.6

  4. Anonymous | September 21, 2005 at 8:34 am | Permalink

    Didn’t work for me. I’m using 1.0.6.

  5. Anonymous | September 30, 2005 at 9:11 pm | Permalink

    Didn’t work for me either in 1.0.7. I set it to 10 seconds and observed the bookmark, but it didn’t seem like it was trying to refresh.

  6. Luc | October 14, 2005 at 10:49 pm | Permalink

    Rock! thx…

  7. Derek L. | October 20, 2005 at 4:23 am | Permalink

    Thanks for this tip Chris. I’m using 1.0.7. There seems to be a lower limit of approx 60 seconds.

  8. Jim on Tyneside UK | November 29, 2005 at 1:21 pm | Permalink

    Does not seem to work for me either on 1.5 R3
    I set the time as 60.

  9. Anonymous | December 15, 2005 at 11:20 am | Permalink

    Great!!!

  10. Matt Nordhoff | January 23, 2006 at 11:36 pm | Permalink

    Please, don’t set it to check every minute (which seems to be the minimum). It isn’t nice to be checking hundreds of times a day, when you’ll only check the Live Bookmark twice.

  11. Anonymous | February 28, 2006 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    Helpful. Thanks, was just what i was looking for.

  12. Matthew Kelp | July 6, 2006 at 1:09 pm | Permalink

    I’m using RSS on a private server feed so checking every 30 seconds would be helpful. If I was checking somewhere else maybe, but I don’t think there should be a lower limit.

  13. sjhoward | August 26, 2006 at 8:29 am | Permalink

    Fantastic! Very useful – I’ve been looking for ages for a way to do this, through all the options screens and help files and the lot!

  14. Yo | September 15, 2006 at 5:02 pm | Permalink

    The setting should be an individual setting on each bookmark. Maybe in another release?

  15. jaby | September 17, 2007 at 8:33 am | Permalink

    extremely useful!!!

  16. jose | September 17, 2007 at 9:14 am | Permalink

    hey i need a recommendation on a server with 30 seconds refresh rate.

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