Colab Alive

Keep your Colab tabs alive with this nifty extension!

Colab Alive: A Chrome Extension Keeping Colab Notebooks Active

'Colab Alive' is a useful Chrome extension designed to keep Google Colab notebooks running even when you navigate away. Updated as of March 2021, it injects JavaScript code into your Colab tabs to prevent disconnection. Highly useful for those who regularly work with Colab, and thanks to its recent updates, it works flawlessly with the latest version of Google Colab.
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Extension stats

Users: 8,000+
Rating: 3.64
(11)
Version: 1.3.1 (Last updated: 2021-03-31)
Creation date: 2020-06-12
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 85.03K

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# 11,719 ▲ 66
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#24340 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 21

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Extension summary

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Colab Alive - a chrome extension that keeps Colab notebooks alive.

Updated to work with the latest Colab as of March 2021. Thanks to https://github.com/sobuj53 for the update!

How it works — a few lines of JS code are injected if you have a colab tab open and running even if you navigate away from the page.

Code credit: https://medium.com/@shivamrawat_756/how-to-prevent-google-colab-from-disconnecting-717b88a128c0

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User reviews

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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.
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 likelihood

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

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