Automatic web-page refresh using xdotool - not sending key after window focus

Question

Given:

I have Firefox with the [Firefox Page Title] page open on my Ubuntu computer.

Here is my command:

Answer 1

For me, the following works:

xdotool search --onlyvisible --class Firefox key F5

as well as

{ 
   xdotool search --onlyvisible --class Firefox windowfocus
   sleep 0.1
   xdotool key ctrl+r
}

but

xdotool search --onlyvisible --class Firefox key ctrl+r

and

xdotool search --onlyvisible --class Firefox windowfocus key ctrl+r

do not work.

So it seems that using a key combo with modifiers requires a little delay, at least with Firefox (I can send ctrl-keys to Emacs with no such issues, however).