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theatomiccherry

Need help figuring out this problem, new chapter page keeps refreshing itself when I try to post a new chapter

I don't know what's really happening or why, only that it's happened 3 times in a row now and it's really goddamn annoying. And because nothing is saved, I can't do anything except start all over again every time.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there any way to prevent it or do I really just need to click 'save without posting' every 5 seconds out of fear of the page suddenly deciding to refresh? Is it even a problem with AO3 or is it just my browser being weird? I don't know.

Posted May 6, 2019, 5:42 AM UTC

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makikoigami•

I posted a new chapter myself earlier on Firefox 50 something with no issues. Maybe try another browser?

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cjrecordvt•

not heard of this happening. what browser; what os; if it's a phone, is it going into power saver; if it's a desktop, disable your extensions?

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theatomiccherryOP•

Firefox 56, Windows 10.

Firefox kind of disabled all my extensions for me, at least back when I was constantly having this issue about a day ago.

This random refresh issue doesn't happen on any other webpage, not unless it's supposed to. Just only on the new chapter page.

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cjrecordvt•

No idea. Firefox broke its extensions, which you may have read about on the web (and if you're still on 56, you're not going to like the fix). But there's nothing on that page that forces a refresh - in fact, it pulls almost all of the code from the New Work page.

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theatomiccherryOP•

Oh, I already fixed my addons.

And yeah, this seems really abnormal. It is truly random. I can't replicate it on command, it just kind of... happens.

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