I want to prevent open websites from automatically refreshing.

I work with many tabs open at the same time during my work day. I wonder if the fact that they automatically refresh frequently is a factor in slowing Firefox. How can I disable the automatic refresh? I do not with to close and reopen as they all require logins and it takes too much time.

Sorry, it looks that my reply above ended up in the wrong thread.
I'm not aware of a way to prevent automatic refresh if the page uses JavaScript to achieve this.
It is also possible to do this via a meta refresh tag.
In some cases this extension can help.
*RefreshBlocker: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refreshblocker/
It doesn't work with refresh done via JavaScript as will be used in most cases these days.

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