w3m keeps auto-refreshing

Question

When I run w3m 'google.com/search?unicode+smiley' the page does load correctly, but it keeps refreshing every 0 seconds until I hit CtrlC.

I don't think I changed any of my w3m settings and this is a new behaviour.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '15 at 21:49

w3m has been known to have problems with http-equiv="refresh", which the google results page uses — the copy I see has no timeout.

Here are a few (not recent) reports mentioning w3m:

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '15 at 17:10

Edit ~/.w3m/config. There is a line that says meta_refresh 1; change the 1 to a 0.

More discussion in this link which @Thomas Dickey posted: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/hpzglVb9B5M. (Skip the first 4 or 5 to get to where they're attempting to answer it.)

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