Is there a way to disable the "Page Refresh" setting below? What would the effects of that be?
Set the time to 0 mins. The effects would be that the page does not refresh so if something goes down, you will not see that.
Does that work for you? I tried setting it to 0 and the web UI stopped working. I had to reset the value to 5 via Database Manager to regain access. I ended up setting it to the max, 9999 minutes.