Spark Auto Refresh

Name: Spark Auto Refresh
Rating: 4.857142857142857 (21 reviews)
Author: Mahala Cooke

Spark Auto Refresh: Ignite Your Browsing Experience with Seamless Page Refreshing!

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Spark Auto Refresh is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance your browsing experience by automating page refreshes. Forget manual updates: refresh multiple tabs simultaneously with just a click, ensuring you never miss the latest content across all your favorite sites.

The extension offers fully customizable timers, allowing refresh intervals starting as low as 1 second to suit your specific needs. Its intuitive, user-friendly interface requires no technical expertise—simply install and set your preferences. Additionally, Spark Auto Refresh cleverly prevents annoying pop-up alerts when leaving pages, ensuring an uninterrupted and smooth browsing flow.

Upgrade your productivity and stay current effortlessly with Spark Auto Refresh. This extension is an essential tool for anyone looking to maintain real-time information across multiple tabs with ease and reliability.

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Version:

1.0.3 Last updated: 2025-02-22

Creation date:

2023-06-22

Risk:

Permissions:

scripting
storage
alarms

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size:

473.00KB

Email:

ma*****@gmail.com

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Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-15

Ranking

# 8,302 ▲ 29

Other rankings

#10260 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 7

#21 in auto refresh keyword 68 ▲ 5

#25 in effort keyword 4 ▲ 2

#25 in refresh keyword 68 ▲ 6

#72 in rest keyword 44 ▲ 8

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Spark Auto Refresh (v1.3.1)

1,523 5.00

(3,024)

User reviews

Spark Auto Refresh is a stable and efficient Chrome extension praised for its ability to schedule automatic page refreshes with customizable update counts and intervals. It runs quietly in the background using minimal resources and is appreciated for its comprehensive features and ease of use without advertising. However, multiple users note that the refresher sometimes stops after several cycles and needs manual restarting. The extension currently lacks advanced options for selective group tab refreshes and more customizable scheduling settings, which users would like to see improved.

Pros

Allows setting specific update times and number of updates, not just infinite intervals.
Stable and efficient operation with good debugging and minimal bugs.
Supports scheduled automatic refreshing of multiple tabs, working well in the background.
Consumes minimal system resources while running.
No advertising and user-friendly interface with various useful features.

Cons

Does not support updating tab groups selectively; lacks options for selective tab updates.
Users report that refreshing may stop after a few cycles and require manual restarting.
Limited settings for customizing the refresh schedule and selective updating.

Recent reviews

I lined up 13 tabs, and set each of them on a 1 minute timer, then left it alone. The first time, the timer stopped between 3 and 9 refreshes through various tabs, and had to be manually restarted. The second time, the refreshed stopped at 3 refreshes per tab. If you want to keep tabs open and refreshing in the background, do not use this refresher, as it seems that the tabs must be constantly babysat in order to keep the refresher running.

Si*****, 2024-10-04

Probably the only extension where you can set a specific update time, not just the interval. And also in the interval, you can put the number of updates, and not just an infinite number of times, as with others.

Ar*****, 2023-06-29

The best extension for updating tabs that could be found in the chrome store. Much more stable and better than their counterparts. Only there is a request to the developers – to add a signaling system about the operation performed.

Al*****, 2023-06-29

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Spark Auto Refresh requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.

Risk likelihood

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Spark Auto Refresh is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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