Colab Alive

Keep your Colab tabs alive with this nifty extension!

Colab Alive

Colab Alive is a powerful Chrome extension designed to keep your Google Colab notebooks running actively, preventing disconnections even when you navigate away. Updated in March 2021, this extension uses a few lines of JavaScript code to maintain the connection to your Colab session, ensuring your work stays uninterrupted.

By leveraging this nifty tool, users can enhance their productivity and avoid common connectivity issues that can be frustrating during data analysis or machine learning projects. Support the developer by rating Colab Alive on the Chrome Web Store and keep your workflow seamless!

Manifest V2
Users: 7,000+
Rating: 3.64
(11)
Version: 1.3.1 (Last updated: 2021-03-31)
Creation date: 2020-06-12
Size: 85.03K
Full description: See detailed description
Updated: a day ago

User reviews

Pros
  • Works, Keeps opening the active sessions tab to keep the session alive.
  • Excellent!!!
  • thanks for your work
  • runs as good as you want
Cons
  • not working in Mar 2022
  • Its not working anyway, I just tried
  • I tried it and it did not work. Is there a specific way that I should be using it?
  • didn't work at all
  • love it, it will be even better if no window prompts
Most mentioned
  • not working in Mar 2022
  • Its not working anyway, I just tried
  • Works, Keeps opening the active sessions tab to keep the session alive.
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User reviews
not working in Mar 2022
by Legacy, 2022-03-07

Its not working anyway, I just tried
by Mrj T, 2021-11-04

Awesome, would be convenient if there was an option to temporarily disable it though.
by Theodore Jiang, 2021-07-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Colab Alive requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
  • High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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Risk likelihood

Colab Alive has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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