Session Alive

Keep your Session Alive at any website and never get logged out...

Session Alive: Keep Your Web Session Active Without Interruption

Session Alive is a smart Chrome extension designed to prevent session expirations on websites. It achieves this by auto-reloading your website in the background, thus keeping your session active even if you’re not active on the site. Whether a website implements session timeouts or JavaScript idle timers, Session Alive offers options for both background page requests or foreground page reloads. Notifications, easily editable settings, and the ability to disable rules provide a versatile solution for keeping your web sessions uninterrupted.
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Extension stats

By: Arun
Users: 10,000+
Version: 2.3 (Last updated: 2024-03-18)
Creation date: 2022-08-03
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • notifications
  • storage
Size: 124.93K

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Extension summary

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Almost all websites with authentication has a session timeout. If you are inactive in the website for some time then your session may be expired. You need to login again to perform any action in the website.

This extension will keep your session from expiring by reloading your website in the background. This will keep your session alive without manually reloading website even you are inactive in the website for long period of time. Background page request This option keep the session alive by requesting page in the background using AJAX requests, and page reload is not required and unsaved changes are not lost. Set the Background trigger URL as your website dashboard/ welcome URL, set the Interval and save. Navigate to the Trigger URL in a New Tab and Your session is now alive!

Automatic stopping of Background page request The rule is automatically stopped by analyzing the server response.

Foreground page reload The Background page reload will not be enough to keep the session alive, if websites implements JavaScript idle timer in the browser itself. The Foreground page reload option can overcome this limitation. This option keep the session alive by auto-reloading current page in the browser.

Automatic stopping of Foreground page reload

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User reviews

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Pros
  • Works great for keeping users logged into various websites, especially those that log users out frequently.
  • Offers lots of settings that can be adjusted to match how each website works.
  • User-friendly for maintaining multiple logins across different portals.
Cons
  • Does not work for certain websites, including online banking.
  • Some users find it not easy to use or configure.
  • Issues with error messages and lack of clear support.
Most mentioned
  • Works great
  • Doesn't work
  • Not easy to use
User reviews
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by thabet su, 2024-12-17

Does not work. I am bombarded with "Background request rules stopped! The server response was not 200 OK!" What does that even mean? I could find no help other than a six-year-old GitHub post that doesn't help. I wish it did work. It seems nice.
by leafbelly, 2024-08-02

by Ди, 2024-03-31
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Session Alive requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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