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If you're on Linux and use a different browser you can do the same using xdotool.

    autocmd BufWriteCmd *.html,*.css,*.haml :call Refresh_browser()
    function()! Refresh_browser()
        if &modified
            write
            silent !xdotool search --class google-chrome key ctrl+r
        endif
    endfunction

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And if you are on a mac, you can do something like this instead of the xdotool line:

silent !osascript ~/.vim/refresh.scpt

Where refresh.scpt looks like this:

  tell application "Safari"
	activate
	set rURL to URL of current tab of front window
	set URL of current tab of front window to rURL
  end tell

Or like this (this form preserves the location on the page)

  tell application "Safari"
	activate
  end tell

  tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Safari"
		keystroke "r" using {command down}
	end tell
  end tell

Won't that refresh all instances of Chrome?

You'd think so, but when I was doing some quick testing with just one window and multiple tabs it only refreshed the current tab. Doing some more tests now with multiple windows, it seems to only refresh the active tab of the back-most window in the stack.

I think that's rather counter-intuitive, but I doubt it'd be much of an issue in practice.

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