# 5 Second Refresher

> Automatically refreshes the page every 5 seconds. Click the icon to start a tab refreshing. Click the icon again to stop it refreshing. As long as the tab is active it will be refreshed every 5 seconds.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/5-second-refresher](https://chrome-stats.com/d/5-second-refresher)

## Overview

- **ID:** `5-second-refresher`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tom
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 5
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 1.2
- **Last updated:** 2020-01-08
- **First published:** 2019-09-26
- **Size:** 9.55 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5-second-refresher/)

## Description

5 Second Refresher is a Firefox add-on that automatically refreshes web pages every 5 seconds. Simply click the icon to start refreshing the tab, and click again to stop the refreshing process. It keeps the tab refreshed as long as it is active.

## Rankings

- #44,965 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/5-second-refresher)