ExtLab Refresh: Auto Refresh & Tab Reloader

Auto refresh tabs on a timer. A tab reloader for dashboards and monitoring pages that can keep a session alive.

ExtLab Refresh is an auto refresh Chrome extension and tab reloader for dashboards, monitoring pages and long sessions. Open a tab, pick an interval, press Start. The tab reloads on its own, with a live countdown in the popup and a badge on the toolbar icon. It is an alternative to Tab auto reloader, which is no longer in the Chrome Web Store. This auto refresh extension works offline with no account. Your tabs, URLs and rules stay in your browser. A default install has no access to any website. FREE • Auto refresh one tab at a time • Presets from 10 seconds to 1 hour, or your own interval from 5 seconds to 24 hours • A live countdown and a refresh count in the popup, and a toolbar badge on the refreshing tab • An option to leave the tab you are looking at alone • JSON export and import PRO • Refresh any number of tabs, each on its own timer • Site rules: a URL pattern starts refreshing by itself when a matching tab opens, and rules come back after a browser restart • Hard reload that bypasses the cache • Random timing, which moves each interval up or down by the percentage you set • Stop after N refreshes • Session keep-alive: keep session alive on sites that sign you out when idle, with a plain reload every 5 minutes or more • Page alert: a notification when a text you enter appears on a page or disappears from it Pro is a yearly license from Gumroad for 12 USD per year. A 7-day free trial starts from the extension. GOOD TO KNOW • The shortest interval is 5 seconds. Intervals under 30 seconds need Chrome 153 or newer. Older versions refresh such a tab every 30 seconds, and the countdown shows that. • "Do not refresh the tab I am looking at" goes by the tab alone: the active tab of the focused Chrome window. Chrome does not tell extensions if you are typing or have a field selected. A held refresh tries again every 30 seconds. • A reload can discard text you typed but did not save, so turn that option on for pages where you type. • A timer started by hand ends when the browser closes. Site rules start again on matching tabs. • Keep-alive helps where a page load counts as activity. A site with a fixed session limit still ends the session. • A page alert checks after each page load, in the top frame, and it needs access to that site. You allow each site with a click, and you can remove it in the options page. PERMISSIONS • tabs: reloads the tabs you choose, and reads tab URLs on your device to match your rules • storage: saves your rules and settings in your browser • alarms: times each refresh and the daily license check • notifications: shows your page alerts • scripting: checks whether your alert text is on a page, only on sites you allow Optional site access: Chrome asks you for one site at a time, when you click Allow for a page alert. Refreshing needs no site access. DATA ExtLab Refresh never sends the URLs you refresh, tab titles, rules, alert text or page content. A page alert reads a page on your device and keeps only a yes or no. It sends only this to api.extlab.app: • License checks: your license key and a random install id, on activation and once a day. No key, no check. • Daily configuration fetch: the random install id. • Usage statistics: install, update and a daily heartbeat, with the random install id, version, language and whether Pro is active. You can turn these off in the options page. • Error reports: error text with URLs and file paths removed. The same switch turns these off. Privacy policy: https://extlab.app/ext/extlab-refresh/privacy Not affiliated with Tab auto reloader or its authors.