Tab Reloader (page auto refresh)

Name: Tab Reloader (page auto refresh)
Rating: 4.0185 (433 reviews)
Author: James Fray

An easy-to-use tab reloader with custom reloading time settings for individual tabs

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Tab Reloader is a powerful Chrome extension designed to automatically refresh individual browser tabs with custom reload intervals and random variations. Users can control when and how often each tab refreshes, whether the tab is active or not, and even set rules that trigger reloading based on URLs or hostnames.

The extension features a user-friendly toolbar panel to enable or disable reload jobs, display remaining reload time, reload local files, and run custom JavaScript on each refresh. Additional capabilities include restoring reload jobs after browser restarts, context-menu reload options, reloading all tabs in a window, and configuring policies to restrict reloads based on time or URLs. With Tab Reloader, you gain full control over tab refresh behavior for productivity and content monitoring.

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Daily users:

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Version:

0.6.4 Last updated: 2025-01-08

Version code:

5864525

Creation date:

2015-07-21

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
tabs
alarms
webNavigation
contextMenus
idle
scripting
offscreen
declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

Size:

619.17K

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 244 ▼ 2

Other rankings

#6 in Tabs

#8 in Web Development

#1 in auto refresh keyword 69

#1 in refresh keyword 63

#1 in reload keyword 41

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User reviews

Users appreciate Tab Reloader's core functionality in keeping pages refreshed for monitoring and preventing timeouts. Its customization options and Firefox endorsement are positives. However, several users report a significant memory leak causing slowdowns and crashes, struggle with inadequate documentation requiring coding skills, limitations like a minimum 10-second refresh interval, and issues with certain features like URL matching. Interface concerns include unwanted context menu additions. Overall, it's effective for basic needs but presents usability and performance challenges for advanced or prolonged use.

Pros

Effectively reloads pages to prevent timeout or for real-time monitoring.
Generally works as expected for basic page auto-refresh functionality.
Provides customization options, including creating custom reload jobs and scripting capabilities.
Has Firefox's official endorsement, indicating reliability and safety.
User appreciation for active monitoring use cases, like portfolio tracking.

Cons

Memory leak issues causing Firefox to slow down or crash during prolonged use.
Poor or complicated documentation, especially for non-coders, with reliance on JSON scripting.
Limitations such as minimum refresh interval (10 seconds) reduce flexibility.
Some features like matching full URLs in custom jobs don't function properly or as expected.
Interface clutter such as unwanted context menu entries and inadequate GUI for ease of use.

Recent reviews

by Jidáš, 2025-05-14

5-9-2025-doesn't work. Does not keep tabs connected. Worthless no matter what the settings.

by USER-EXPERIENCEONLY, 2025-05-09

In general, it is a really good extension. The problem is, I use this headlessly to monitor a website, and this has a fairly major memory leak causing Firefox to eventually crash, it also causes Firefox to run stupidly slowly, needing a stop and restart to fix. This may be okay for some, but when I don't actively monitor this box, it is for me.

by Espada, 2025-05-06

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Tab Reloader (page auto refresh) requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Tab Reloader (page auto refresh) has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

Low This extension was updated more than 6 months ago. Older versions are more likely to be stable and safe.
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