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POHow to reload/refresh a web page without leaving my web development IDE?
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copied!<h1>Building Websites</h1> <p>When I build websites I use 2 monitors. I have my development IDE on the main monitor and the web page open on the secondary screen.</p> <p>I get annoyed that everytime I need to refresh the web page I have to go to my mouse, move over to the other screen and click refresh.</p> <p>I would like to have a shortcut key mapped to reloading the web page whenever I need. In a similar way to how Winamp maps keys to common functions like play/pause etc.</p> <h1>My current research:</h1> <h2>Firefox via Command Line</h2> <p>I have discovered that an existing FireFox process can be controled from the command line, however the best it can do is create a new window with a specific URL.</p> <pre><code>firefox -remote "openURL(www.mozilla.org, new-tab)" </code></pre> <p>The documentation is here: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options" rel="noreferrer">https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options</a></p> <h2>Reload Every</h2> <p>There is also a firefox extension that will refresh the web page periodically. However this results in a constant flickering of the page and will also be wasteful with resources.</p> <p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115/" rel="noreferrer">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115/</a></p> <h2>However, what I really need is either....</h2> <ul> <li>A customisable global hotkey for Firefox/Chrome to reload current selected tab</li> <li>A browser extension that could be fired from a Global Hotkey</li> <li>A command to reload the current selected tab from the Command Line that I could then map to a hotkey (is it possible to add extra remote command with an extentsion?)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Does anyone know how I could do this? Thanks!</strong></p>

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