In reply to Julie @Niackery.

ah ok got it. I am a decent coder and know my way around WP pretty well, but that is the extent of my credentials. So I am going to state what I know from that/my perspective. I believe the Shiny Updates feature is done with AJAX and what is really cool thing about doing anything that uses js/AJAX is that you can do things in real "real-time" vs doing something with only php code, which executes/processes in real-time, but you are always seeing the past and not now/the current moment. Example: a php function is processed and you see a displayed message. In that moment you see "now", but in reality the function was already processed so technically you are seeing the past - yeah wrap ur head around that one. :) I am not a js or AJAX expert, but what I do know is that AJAX works very similarly to Visual Basic (VB) code that is used in most Microsoft applications so you can actually access things in real-time from the client/your browser as they are happening in real-time.

So to answer your question to the best of my knowledge I would say that since AJAX (assuming that is AJAX is used for Shiny Updates) is being used then browser refreshing is not going to be any sort of factor because of how AJAX works in real-time. So if the Shiny Updates code was doing what it does by using just php code then a browser refresh would be a factor in this equation. Hope that all made sense. :)