Session Alive chrome extension

What is Session Alive?

Session Alive is a tab manager extension for chrome. also, it is session manager extension and browser auto refresher extension. it's a free extension , it has 1,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 5.00 from 2 rated user, last update is 632 days ago.

What’s new in version 2.2?

                Almost all websites with authentication has a session timeout. If you are inactive in the website for some time then your session may be expired. You need to login again to perform any action in the website.

This extension will keep your session from expiring by reloading your website in the background. This will keep your session alive without manually reloading website even you are inactive in the website for long period of time.
Background page request
This option keep the session alive by requesting page in the background using AJAX requests, and page reload is not required and unsaved changes are not lost.
Set the Background trigger URL as your website dashboard/ welcome URL, set the Interval and save. Navigate to the Trigger URL in a New Tab and Your session is now alive!

Automatic stopping of Background page request
The rule is automatically stopped by analyzing the server response.

Foreground page reload
The Background page reload will not be enough to keep the session alive, if websites implements JavaScript idle timer in the browser itself. The Foreground page reload option can overcome this limitation.
This option keep the session alive by auto-reloading current page in the browser.

Automatic stopping of Foreground page reload
The rule is automatically stopped if the user navigates away from the Trigger URL.

Notifications
Browser Notifications can be set for the page reload success/ fail conditions.

Disable a rule
The rule can be disabled if you want to temporarily stop the rule from triggering.

Easily create and edit rules in the settings page, and also try the different options available to suit your needs.

Permissions Requested

1. Access your data for all websites : required to inject a JavaScript code to all the webpages which is activated only when a rule is running.
2. Access browser tabs : required to access the browser tab where the rule is running.
3. Display notifications to you : required to display Browser Notifications with the status of the running rule.

Session Alive extension is Open Source. If you want to contribute to this project or encounter any issues please visit: https://github.com/arunelias/session-alive

Always assess the safety of any extension before installing. Here are tips for assessing the safety of an extension https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9897812?hl=en            

How to install Session Alive?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Session Alive

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Reviews of session alive:

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EPC October 5th, 2022

Super simple and just keeps my various web portals alive in the background so I don't have to re-log in a million times a day when I look away for 2 minutes! Worked great and very easy to understand.

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Leland Bingaman September 29th, 2022

THANK THE MAKER! Finally a Chromium replacement for Staying Alive! I was crushed when Staying Alive was no longer in the store. This is a sanity saver for those using sites all day for work that keep timing out at just the wrong time and keep logging back in 10-100 times a day. Very familiar settings for anyone that used Staying Alive before.

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