Auto Refresh tabs and web pages

Autorefresh tabs and web pages with the easy Auto Refresh Chrome extension, your auto refresher for website monitoring

⏰ A timer you can't see is a timer you can't trust. That's the gap this Auto Refresh extension fills: while it reloads a tab on a schedule, a live countdown ticks away on the toolbar badge – 45s, 30s, 5s – then rolls over and starts again. You never have to wonder whether auto-refresh is still running because the time until the next reload is always right there on screen. Control stays simple and intentional. Left-click the icon to start the countdown for the tab you're viewing; click it again to pause. For most people, that's the whole feature – easy auto refresh, one click to start and one click to stop. Right-click the icon to open everything else: interval selection, indicator styles, and the global pause described below. Intervals are selected from a fixed menu rather than entered manually: 5, 10, 15, 30, 45 and 60 seconds, then 2, 5, 10 and 15 minutes. The default interval is 15 seconds, with a maximum of 15 minutes. Auto Refresh Page is designed for pages that change over the course of a coffee break, not across an entire workday. If you choose a new interval while the timer is running, it takes effect immediately without restarting the countdown. If you change it while paused, it'll be saved for the next time you start it. Each tab keeps its own timer. The interval, running state and indicator style are all stored per tab, so a dashboard refreshing every 15 seconds can happily sit alongside another tab refreshing every 10 minutes and a third that never reloads at all. That's the difference between a per-tab reloader and a browser-wide setting: turning on Auto Refresh in one tab doesn't quietly enable it everywhere else. The tab title matters more than you might think. A badge is only useful while you're looking at that tab, and once the page moves into the background the icon stops telling you anything. That's why the countdown can also be displayed directly in the tab title, ahead of the page's own title, in whichever style suits you best: ● a shrinking progress bar (▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█), ● Braille blocks, ● moon phases (🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕), ● or plain digits like [01:05]. Even with dozens of tabs open, you can quickly see which pages are counting down and roughly how far through each timer is. If you'd rather keep the title clean, simply switch this feature off for that tab. Sometimes you need to stop every Chrome auto-refresh at once. Whether you're sharing your screen, filling out a long form, or reading without wanting the page to change underneath you, one global pause stops every running timer across the browser. Resume brings them all back, and individual tabs can still be started or paused manually afterwards. Website monitoring is where all these features come together. The pages people monitor have very little in common except that they change without warning. A developer points automatic Chrome refresh at a CI build status page and lets it reload until the build finally turns green ✅. An operations team keeps dashboards and support queues up to date on a wall display where nobody is standing by to hit Refresh. Someone waiting for stock to return, tickets to go on sale or a price to change can start auto-refresh and walk away, knowing the page will update whenever the moment arrives. One feature, four completely different reasons to use it. Installation is designed to be effortless. The extension is lightweight, and once Auto Refresh for Chrome is installed it works immediately with tabs that are already open – no closing and reopening pages, and no manual refresh before the first countdown begins. Your settings are stored locally in your browser, so the configuration you create today will still be there tomorrow. The interface is also fully localised, with menus automatically displayed in your browser's language instead of defaulting to English. Frequently asked questions: ❓Does this Auto Refresh extension work on any website? ❗Yes. The extension controls the browser tab rather than the page itself, so it behaves consistently across dashboards, online stores, internal tools and ordinary websites. ❓What's the shortest and longest refresh interval? ❗Five seconds and fifteen minutes. Longer intervals are outside the intended scope of this Auto Refresh tool. ❓Is there a Safari version? ❗No. This is a Manifest V3 Chrome extension designed for Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, so it can't be installed in Safari. ❓Can I pause one tab without affecting the others? ❗Yes. Simply left-click that tab's icon. The global pause is a separate action designed to stop every timer across the current browser session. ❓Does the timer keep running after I close a tab? ❗No. Closing a tab also removes its timer. If you reopen the page, simply start a new one. A good auto refresher should fade into the background. It's less an app you actively manage and more a habit your browser quietly picks up. The change is subtle but meaningful: once your browser automatically reloads web pages for you, it stops being something you constantly check and becomes something that checks for you. Set the interval once, keep an eye on the countdown, and come back to pages that are already up to date.