I want to set up Firefox (or any program, for that matter) To visit a specific address every six hours.  Is there an easy way to do this?

Scheduled Tasks. Maybe you might be able to drop a .url in there or something...I can't test it cause I can't find it I don't have it, for some reason Bleh. Don't need it anyway

Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks I think.

You could use ReloadEvery, the extension for Firefox and set it to every six hours.

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Originally posted by Woraug
I want to set up Firefox (or any program, for that matter) To visit a specific address every six hours.  Is there an easy way to do this?

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or put this in notepad save as .bat and scheduel it
bat code:
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start iexplore.exe www.something.com
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 3000 >NUL
taskkill /im iexplore.exe
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make something the site u want to visit obiously

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Originally posted by zach
You could use ReloadEvery, the extension for Firefox and set it to every six hours.

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Originally posted by rav0
In Opera web browser, just go to any page, and then select "Reload every ..." from the page menu.

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
doesnt firefox already have that?

right click > reload every > custom > 360m 0s ?

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the only extension that starts with an R is Remove It Permanently

must be some other extension that does it i guess.

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
the only extension that starts with an R is Remove It Permanently

must be some other extension that does it i guess.

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must be that then.

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
the only extension that starts with an R is Remove It Permanently

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i meant out of the ones that i had installed.

which site are you trying to open
if u use

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start iexplore.exe www.something.com
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 3000 >NUL
taskkill /im iexplore.exe
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What number would I set that to to have IE open for about five minutes?  I don't know if that 3000 is milliseconds or seconds.

i don't know just experiment 30000 might do it
but it is by far the better way of doing it
btw: you need a copy of taskill if your running xphome

I tried the .bat approach with scheduled tasks.  It works to start the task, but it won't kill IE.  I set the time to 300.  I'm using XP Pro BTW.

Are you trying to access the page to read it? Or are you trying to access the page so that the server will do something, without you actually having to see the page's output?

If your trying to just get the server to do something, use Wget for windows and use a scheduled task to retrieve the page with the -S switch to download and discard the file.

Trying to access the page so the server will do a certain update.

In that case, you can use the method I described. I know it works perfectly for my dynamic DNS clients.

check if you have the program taskkill but it works on my machine it does exactly that opens ie then kills it after the pause
well sorry it didn't work for you

I got it.

Taskkill does work, just not in the same .bat file for some reason.  I just created two separate .bats, one containing the code to open IE and go to the site, and one containing the taskkill line.  I just scheduled the taskkill five minutes after the first script.