Always active Window - Always Visible

by brian.girko

Utilities always-active visibility background websites tabs media player spoofing

Quick Look

Keep your browser tabs active and access web services without interruption by spoofing the visibility state.

AI Overview

Who is this for?

Users who need to keep background browser tabs active to ensure continuous operation of web applications, especially media players.

Key Features

→ Spoofs document.visibilityState and document.hidden
→ Prevents websites from tracking tab activity
→ Ensures background tabs can run services normally
→ Overwrites visibility change events and tab blur/mouseleave

Reviews Analysis

Overall Sentiment

Mostly Positive

Users find the extension effective for keeping background tabs active, particularly for media playback, but some find the new per-hostname activation cumbersome.

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

What Users Love

✓ Successfully keeps background tabs active.
✓ Useful for music and media websites.
✓ Helps bypass activity-based restrictions.

Points to Consider

× Requires individual activation per website.
× Can disrupt website functionality if not managed.

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.

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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