Always active Window - Always Visible

by brian.girko

Utilities always-visible tab-management active-tab visibility-state background-play music-players web-tracking productivity

Quick Look

This extension keeps your browser tabs active by spoofing their visibility state, allowing background content like music players to function uninterrupted.

AI Overview

Who is this for?

Users who need background browser tabs to remain active, especially for media playback or services that pause when inactive.

Key Features

→ Spoofs document.visibilityState and document.hidden properties.
→ Prevents websites from tracking tab activity status.
→ Allows background media players to function continuously.
→ Injects a script to maintain active state simulation.

Reviews Analysis

Overall Sentiment

Mixed

Users find the extension useful for keeping background tabs active for music or services, but some encounter issues with performance disruption or the need for per-site enabling.

Note: AI analysis focuses on the substance and recency of reviews, which may differ from the overall store rating.

What Users Love

✓ Keeps background tabs active, enabling continuous media playback.
✓ Effective at preventing websites from pausing content due to inactivity.

Points to Consider

× Requires manual enabling for each hostname, which can be inconvenient.
× Can disrupt website performance if not managed carefully.

Official Description

From the Developer

Simulate all whitelisted browser windows as active by spoofing the visibility state event and more!

[Breaking Change] Version 0.4.0 and above. The extension must now be enabled for each hostname individually. This adjustment enhances the extension's performance, as the always-active feature can disrupt websites. To activate it, open the page requiring the always-active feature in a browser tab and click the action button once. The page will refresh, and the action button will turn blue.

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This extension protects against web pages tracking the activity state of the page. Some websites use this track to only offer services when the tab is active. By installing this extension a small script is injected into every webpage which overwrites the "document.visibilityState", and "document.hidden" properties to pretend the tab is always in the active state (document.visibilityState = 'visible' and document.hidden = false).

This is useful for the webpages that check your visibility state before loading resources like many music webpages. By installing this extension even if the page is opened in the background page, the player will start immediately like the page is loaded on an active tab.

Supported Trackings: document.mozHidden (only on Firefox browser) document.webkitHidden (only on Chromium browsers)

Supported Events:

visibilitychange
webkitvisibilitychange (only on Chromium browsers)
mozvisibilitychange (only on Firefox browser)
blur (some websites require the user to keep the tab focused)
mouseleave (some websites use this method to make sure the user pointer is inside the window)

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