# Session Alive

> Keep your Session Alive at any website and never get logged out. Forget the session timeout messages. Multi-Account Containers supported.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/keep-session-alive](https://chrome-stats.com/d/keep-session-alive)

## Overview

- **ID:** `keep-session-alive`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Arun
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 2,420
- **Weekly downloads:** 78
- **Rating:** 3.66 / 5 (47 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.4
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-23
- **First published:** 2018-04-12
- **Size:** 110 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keep-session-alive/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/arunelias/session-alive/issues](https://github.com/arunelias/session-alive/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keep-session-alive/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keep-session-alive/privacy/)

## Description

Session Alive keeps your web sessions active across sites by running in the background or the foreground. It offers two modes: Background AJAX keep-alives that ping a trigger URL without reloading the page, and Foreground Page Reloads that auto-refresh tabs to bypass JavaScript idle timers. Create rules, set intervals, and manage multiple accounts using per-rule settings in a centralized dashboard.

It includes smart auto-stop to prevent wasted activity, browser notifications for status updates, and an easy rule manager to enable/disable rules. The extension is open source and safe, with permissions to inject scripts, access tabs, and display notifications. It supports Multi-Account Containers for separate session management.

## Rankings

- #1,940 — Overall
- #303 — Other extensions
- #9 — session
- #12 — mission
- #50 — ali
- #57 — give

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `notifications`
- `storage`
- `contextualIdentities`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise Session Alive for keeping sessions alive and preventing short timeouts, especially on banking and sign-out-heavy sites, and for helping when sites sign out frequently. However, many reports show unreliable results across several sites, setup/UI difficulties, and rule-management instability (rules dropping, 'no rules running' errors). Occasional mode limitations and suspend-related issues are noted. Overall, a strong concept with high usefulness and positive sentiment, but reliability and usability improvements are needed.

### Pros

- Keeps sessions alive by automatically refreshing to prevent short timeouts on banking and other sign-out-prone sites
- Works well when configured as designed and is generally reliable on supported sites
- Helps on sites that frequently sign out (e.g., OKTA, admin UIs), improving browsing flow
- Highly positive reception; many users call it a great/very useful addon

### Cons

- Not reliable across all sites; users report it failing on Chase, Secret Server, oVirt, WealthSimple, and others
- Setup and usage can be difficult due to sparse directions and a confusing UI
- Rule management can be unstable (rules drop during execution, not detected for loaded pages, 'no rules running' errors) and may require restarts
- Some functionality issues in certain modes (foreground/background) or when Windows is suspended

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/keep-session-alive)