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Developer: idof
4.37,000

Automatically refreshes the specified page, or only refreshes the inactive tab page.

Automatically refreshes the specified page, or only refreshes the inactive tab page.

User reviews

4 · from the Chrome Web Store
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    Scott Fredrickson

    Nov 23, 2021

    I don't usually add to the review list, but I use this simple extension to keep a logged-in account alive and avoid annoying automatic logouts--and today 2-factor authentification was added. VERY valuable timesaver. I would like to see longer intervals, perhaps 30 min and 1 hour--but in the bigger scheme of things 10 minutes works just fine. Thank you, 'idof'.

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    Jarkitch Tunprasert

    Jan 23, 2021
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    A Chrome Web Store user

    Nov 27, 2018

    This is a simple, clean extension that does exactly what it says and does it well. Quite often these kinds of extensions try to do too much. I tried 3 "similar" but unsatisfying auto-refresh extensions before I found this one, and I'm all set now. My particular use case was a corporate (Outlook) webmail page that had an inactivity timeout of what seemed like 10 minutes. If I went to the washroom or grabbed a coffee, unless I had just forced a refresh of the page, I'd be locked out. (This ...

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    buadak manu

    Feb 12, 2016

    AF_initDataCallback({key: 'ds:1', hash: '2', data:[[],[["\\342\\006\\350[\\232\\254%\\252uv\\003\\370\\372\\365\u003er7ug\\277U\\364\\370\\215\\273\\375-\\034\\344R\\277\\340",["Scott Fredrickson","https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKtIRZJLPOa_0rYj_jG6Vq7DiVLPFM2831AWr5apf_OhGaE-w\u003ds32-mo"],5,"I don't usually add to the review list, but I use this simple extension to keep a logged-in account alive and avoid annoying automatic logouts--and today 2-factor authentification was added. VERY valuable timesaver. I would like to see longer intervals, perhaps 30 min and 1 hour--but in the bigger scheme of things 10 minutes works just fine. Thank you, 'idof'.",[1637702668,966009000],[1637702668,966009000],3,null,null,null,null,null,null,"en","mljjfcmhgefdfgeomcaocgijloggnnjk"],["\\375g\\346\\221\\367\\355\\226\\351v\\225\\375\\325\\225\\246\\326\\021\\3143B\\202r\\224\\243U\\242\\2439\\224\\266\\014\\355\\363",["Jarkitch Tunprasert","https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/ALV-UjWVhW2apVmU0ZX3GYj4vJPQiWxQhMfCii_f3icMopyM3nf2UkRBhA\u003ds32"],5,"nice",[1611394703,161563000],[1611394703,161563000],null,1,null,null,null,null,null,"en","mljjfcmhgefdfgeomcaocgijloggnnjk"],["6v\\365\\0322\\210\\250\\254\\027\\301\\243\\227[\\266\\020!\\253,\\307{19\\332j\\341\\211\\341\\202\\343o\\250\\212",[null,"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/default-user\u003ds32"],5,"This is a simple, clean extension that does exactly what it says and does it well. Quite often these kinds of extensions try to do too much. I tried 3 \"similar\" but unsatisfying auto-refresh extensions before I found this one, and I'm all set now.\n\nMy particular use case was a corporate (Outlook) webmail page that had an inactivity timeout of what seemed like 10 minutes. If I went to the washroom or grabbed a coffee, unless I had just forced a refresh of the page, I'd be locked out. (This was the most hostile user interface for something you need to use all day long at work I can imagine.) \n\nThis app completely resolved my troubles by allowing me to set a 5- or 10-minute auto-refresh (or faster, but that's enough), that includes background/inactive browser tabs.\n\nI've also used it for stats/results monitoring on pages that did not auto-refresh, setting those to 10- or 30-second refreshes.\n\nGreat extension, it \"just works\". It does what you need and doesn't cross the fine line trying to be too clever.",[1543332470,308037000],[1543332470,308037000],3,null,null,null,null,null,null,"en","mljjfcmhgefdfgeomcaocgijloggnnjk"],["b\\234S\\205x\\014V.\\275\\231\\033\\370\\321{\\305F_\\211\\325\\354\\360\\210V\\305\\n\\27601\\307\\253\\211\\265",["buadak manu","https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/ALV-UjW30IE8pQ1gSjNFs7oFtsRatMaKg5NGvA0lbWq4y3Weshmf0BY\u003ds32"],5,"it is a nice apps",[1455297864,148402000],[1455297873,311674000],1,1,null,null,null,null,null,"en","mljjfcmhgefdfgeomcaocgijloggnnjk"]],4], sideChannel: {}});