Just Tab Reloader

Just Tab Reloader is a minimalist and lightweight browser extension designed for users who need to refresh webpages periodically. For example, it is particularly useful for keeping connections alive on firewalls, cybersecurity portals, or monitoring dashboards that automatically log you out due to inactivity.

By setting a specific time range, you can reload pages to maintain active sessions. The extension automatically and randomly reloads the page (bypassing the cache) within your defined interval, mimicking natural browsing behavior.

[Key Features]

• Simple to Use: One-click toggle. The status switch is checked by default in the popup UI for instant, one-click setup.
• Random Time Intervals: Set the "Minimum Seconds" and "Maximum Seconds." The extension randomly selects a time within this range for each reload. It also remembers your last used settings to save you typing.
• Startup Tab Restoration (New in v2.1): An opt-in feature to automatically reopen your previously reloading tabs in the background when the browser restarts, resuming their reload cycles seamlessly.
• Watchdog Halt Prevention (New in v2.1): A background watchdog timer running every minute. It automatically detects and recovers reloaders that halted due to computer sleep, network dropouts, or temporary page errors.
• Hard Reload: Every refresh bypasses the browser cache (bypassCache) to guarantee you always see the latest content.
• Independent Tab Settings: Enable reloaders on multiple tabs simultaneously with completely independent configurations.
• Lightweight & Secure: Built on Manifest V3. It only runs when needed and consumes zero idle background memory.

[Privacy Policy] Just Tab Reloader operates exclusively locally. It does not collect, track, or upload any personal data, session tokens, or browsing history. Stored settings are strictly limited to the URL, title, and min/max seconds for restoration.

Release Changelog:

v2.3 (Current) Reliability — all background chrome.storage read‑modify‑write operations are now serialized through a lock queue, eliminating race-condition overwrites between message handlers, the watchdog, and startup restore. Cleaner state — closing a tab now drops its orphaned settings immediately when Auto-reopen on startup is off (no more accumulation until the 30‑day sweep). Smaller permission footprint — removed the redundant host_permissions: <all_urls> (the tabs permission and static content scripts already cover all API usage).

v2.2

• Reduplication for Session Restore when browser crashed or restart.

v2.1

• Added full multilingual support (i18n) for English (en) and Traditional Chinese (zh-TW).
• Added "Auto-reopen reloading tabs on startup" feature with a toggle in popup.
• Implemented background Watchdog timer using chrome.alarms to recover from computer sleep, network issues, or page loading errors.
• Improved UX by defaulting the status switch to checked when opening popup on new tabs.
• Version bumped to 2.1.

v2.0

• Refactored background worker lifecycles to prevent active reload status loss.
• Fixed a race condition where settings were cleared upon Service Worker sleep.

v1.9

• Reloader Halt Prevention added.
• UX Optimization.
• Startup Tab Restoration.

v1.8

• Input Field Validation Fix: Blocked invalid non-integer keys ('e', 'E', '.', '+', '-') from being input.
• Browser Restart State Loss Fix.

v1.5

• Added validateInputs helper.
• Added validation check under the "update_tab_settings" message handler as a defensive security layer.

v1.4

• Fixed issues of setTimeout.
• Regex + bounds check added for inputs.
• Maximum seconds set to 86,400 (1 <= value <= 86,400).

v1.3

• Fixed orphaned tabs issues (when the browser closes or crashes abnormally). Added an automated cleanup mechanism in background.js.

v1.2

• Added three size icons (48, 96, 128 px), updated background.js.

v1.1

• Icon file path issues fixed.

Chrome Ver. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/just-tab-reloader/aajjpkkkhpkmmeloigflnndecefebhjn