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Tab Reloader (page auto refresh)

by tlintspr

v0.6.6 Updated Jul 21, 2025 613KiB
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100K
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★ 4.19
161 reviews
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Description

Tab reloader provides a toolbar panel to perform infinite reloading jobs on individual tabs. You can define a custom period with a random variation for each tab. Tab reloading jobs can be disabled or enabled through the toolbar panel. Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAhQlorZZTc Features: 1. Define variable (random) reloading times with a predefined range 2. Define whether reloading occurs when a tab is active or not 3. Restores reloading jobs after a restart (session manager) 4. Reload tabs from the context menu over tab element (see screenshot) 5. Optionally displays the remaining time of the next reloading on the badge area 6. See the list of all tabs with active reloading jobs in the browser action's popup 7. Set custom rules to start reloading a tab when URL or hostname matches. 8. Optionally move to the bottom of a tab after reloading occurs to read the new content 9. Reload all tabs in the current window or all browser windows 10. Reload local files (file://) 11. Optionally bypass form submissions 12. Define a policy that prevents reloading based on the time (date) and URL 13. Run custom JavaScript code on each reload. 14. Reload only a few times and then stop. 15. Reload discarded tabs in the current window or all windows 16. Supports setting reloading jobs of all selected tabs at once To disable an already activated tab, please make sure to switch to the tab first, then open the toolbar button and disable the job. Note that if you are closing the tab, there is no need to disable the job. The job will be disabled automatically after an active tab gets closed. As of version 0.2.7, you can now ask the extension to automatically set new reloading jobs for you based on the "Custom JSON" object. If the option is checked and the new page has a matching hostname, the extension will load the custom reloading job from the JSON and applies to the tab. Check the options and FAQs pages for more info. As of version 0.2.9, 1 you can define a policy that prevents reloading based on the time (date) and URL. Both time and URL keys accept regular expressions to prevent reloading. With the policies you can, for instance, prevent reloading on a specific page of a domain or prevent reloading at specific hours of a day.
Tab Reloader (page auto refresh) screenshot 1

Reviews (34 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-04
Okita Toshimichi

double opens some links at random real annoying

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-04
jannat shah

not working ..... reloading 1 time only then got stuck

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-02
Tom Parham

Only refreshes the tab once, then sits there doing nothing

★☆☆☆☆2022-07-24
Alex Qxi

Worked well until April, since then flopped and caused me more trouble with not being reliable than if I didn't use it at all.

★☆☆☆☆2022-05-13
Zbigniew Parzych

Reloads only once and stops. Timer works, but no reload.

★☆☆☆☆2022-04-20
nick jones

This should have been a good extension but it is not. This is because it applies the refresh to all tabs. I have gone back to using Auto Refresh Plus Old Version as it does not need to see page data and is tab specific. Now I remember why I stopped using Auto Refresh Plus Old Version. This is a very sneaky program as it does not to read data until you do the refresh.....STAY AWAY. The hunt for a proper refresh extension continues. Nick

★☆☆☆☆2022-01-26
XK XK

Latest update removed the ability to reload all tabs. Uninstalling and finding something else.

★☆☆☆☆2021-08-02
Richard Olson

Just stops working out of nowhere randomly.

★☆☆☆☆2020-08-07
Conrad Knight

Do not install! It does what it says, but it also contains malware that randomly opens ads in new tabs.

★★☆☆☆2025-01-03
Ge Ar

In Firefox, it works fine, but in Chrome, it just reloads randomly. I set it to 10, 15, or 30 sec, and when the countdown is over, the countdown starts over again but it does not refresh the tab at all. I would say, it refreshes every 3 or 4 countdown timers. I tried different values, random factor... to no avail. Apart from the very 1st countdown, it only refreshes when it feels like refreshing. Unuseful..

★★☆☆☆2024-01-16
Notee van Bro

Doesn't keep the time and the cache. I set it to reload 01:00:00, i.e. every hour (with variation 0%). Started at 16:01 yesterday, today it reloads 20 min. after the hour. I also checked the "Use cache when reloading" box to keep an entry I made on the website to be reloaded each hour (!), but after the fifth reload, the browser window reload had dropped the entry. Not so great.

★★☆☆☆2023-02-06
Faran Tariq

Works fine in the start but after some time pages donot reload at all. USELESS!

★★☆☆☆2022-10-24
Bill Strebel

Worked fine for a while but now keeps turning off and pages do not reload. Useless now.

★★☆☆☆2022-08-04
Marcos Alves

It was working great until yesterday, it was reloading the tab I needed every 15 seconds, but today (04/08/2022) the timer goes to 1 minute and i'm not even sure if it's properly reloading.

★★☆☆☆2022-07-18
Doron Arbiv

doesn't always work. and when the primary goal of the extention is to do auto reload, that's basically the whole point....two stars rather than one because when it works, it exactly what i needed. but i can't rely on it, so i'm looking for a different solution .

★★☆☆☆2021-09-13
Matthew Stiatti

Does not properly manage the "Confirm Form Resubmission" popup in the sense that it prevents it from appearing but the way it manages it is not transparent to the server therefore the server resets the session and requires a new login.

★★☆☆☆2021-08-27
Mike

i installed it, to prevent certain pages to auto-refresh, but didn't work at all. In fact i set the timer to 1 day for 3 pages, but all of them proceed to refresh as they normally would. Also too many options confuses the average user. It would be nicer to to put one-click options such as stop-auto refresh permantly. One-click options that are currently exists do not seem to function properly such as "do not reload if tab is active". I understand the effort to create such an open-source extension and that many people use it differently than i am, but i can't put more stars just because it got created by skilled people that put a lot of time to it, if it doesnt work as it should or intended.

★★☆☆☆2021-07-25
Chris Vienna

The extension does what it says, but it adds 4 or 5 listings to the top of every google.com search labeled as "ad". This is not in their descriptions so which other spyware or redirecting could this be doing? Make sure to disable it when not in use.

★★☆☆☆2018-01-30
Igor S. Costa

not working.

★★☆☆☆2017-05-31
Pavlo Bilan

Helpful function "Do not reload if tab is active", it nice. But I will give you 5 stars if you provide auto-confirm function for some tabs as in "super auto refresh" extension.

★★★☆☆2026-03-22
Deltiology Foundation

Couldn't get this to work at all. It's not really auto; you have to reset it every time you open a site.

★★★☆☆2025-05-16
Adam D

As others have mentioned, on Chrome (Or Brave), it sometimes works, but sometimes doesn't I didn't even notice it until recently as I use it to refresh a webpage for work and I thought something was odd, as I wasn't getting many items to action But digging a bit deeper it just stops working all of a sudden, the timer will countdown, reset, but nothing happens Works fine in Firefox though

★★★☆☆2023-03-22
Israel Pastor

The last update seems to have broken the extension. It does not update websites correctly any more.

★★★☆☆2022-10-22
Keith S

totally stopped working a few days ago

★★★☆☆2022-04-14
TnF TnF

Hello. When your tab reloaded extension is active if I maximize or even resize a window to get it bigger it will reload the page even though tab reloaded is not enabled to that or any tab. Please fix it, it’s really annoying.

★★★☆☆2022-03-02
John Diggsfelt

While useful this stops working periodically with no explanation. When working it's fine but it's been hit or miss in my experiences.

★★★☆☆2022-01-26
Amanda Bischof

Used to love this extension but since the latest update it does not function unless the almost-full screen settings page is open in the tab I need reloading, which defeats the purpose of the extension. The previous version was a 5, but now is a 0, and I am searching for other extensions to replace this one.

★★★☆☆2022-01-25
Angie Craig

I need it to refresh the page every 10 seconds, and I have it set to do that, but it is only refreshing every 30 seconds. It counts down the 10 seconds but does not refresh the page until after 30 seconds. This worked fine until the update yesterday.

★★★☆☆2022-01-24
Elizabeth Phelps

This was amazing but the update today set the minimum timer to 10 seconds, which removes all utility for me. So it was previously a 5. For what I need it for, it's a zero.

★★★☆☆2021-11-22
vamsi krishna Sighakolli

The reloader gets disabled after sometime when working with chrome through remote desktop, Very surprisingly the badge counter shows the tab count even though the reloader gets auto disabled by itself!

★★★☆☆2021-09-23
Thomas H

only did a few of the things advertised

★★★☆☆2021-05-29
Hatsune Miku

Broken as of 28/05/21 Seems to randomly turn off.

★★★☆☆2019-02-05
Brian OHern

It is helpful, but pops up a new tab requesting a review. It should not do ANYTHING beyond what it is told by the user (refresh existing tabs).

★★★☆☆2018-02-28
Jon Bayless

Worked great for a while but now it doesn't seem to reliably work after closing and restoring the browser. I have to go back and turn it on again.

Permissions (9)

Permissions

alarms Can schedule periodic background tasks contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess idle Can detect when you're away from the computer offscreen scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs webNavigation Can monitor navigation events

Details

Version 0.6.6
Updated Jul 21, 2025
Size 613KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026