Tab Reloader (page auto refresh)
by tlintspr
Quick Look
Tab Reloader is a versatile Chrome extension that allows you to automatically refresh individual tabs with customizable intervals and rules.
AI Overview
Who is this for?
Users who need to monitor web pages for updates or ensure they have the latest content without manual intervention.
Key Features
- → Customizable reloading intervals with random variations
- → Session management to restore reloading jobs after restart
- → Context menu integration for easy tab management
- → Advanced policies to prevent reloading based on time and URL
- → Reload all tabs or specific selected tabs
Reviews Analysis
Overall Sentiment
Mostly PositiveUsers find the Tab Reloader extension highly useful for its core functionality of automatically refreshing tabs with customizable options, though some minor usability issues or feature requests have been noted.
Note: AI analysis focuses on the substance and recency of reviews, which may differ from the overall store rating.
What Users Love
- ✓ Highly customizable with many advanced features.
- ✓ Reliably refreshes tabs, even after browser restarts.
- ✓ Useful for tracking live data or frequently updated content.
Points to Consider
- × Disabling a reloading job requires switching to the tab first.
- × Some users might find the extensive options initially overwhelming.
Official Description
From the Developer
An easy-to-use tab reloader with custom reloading time for individual tabs and more!
Tab reloader provides a toolbar panel to perform infinite reloading jobs on individual tabs.
You can define a custom period with a random variation for each tab. Tab reloading jobs can be disabled or enabled through the toolbar panel.
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAhQlorZZTc
Features:
- Define variable (random) reloading times with a predefined range
- Define whether reloading occurs when a tab is active or not
- Restores reloading jobs after a restart (session manager)
- Reload tabs from the context menu over tab element (see screenshot)
- Optionally displays the remaining time of the next reloading on the badge area
- See the list of all tabs with active reloading jobs in the browser action's popup
- Set custom rules to start reloading a tab when URL or hostname matches.
- Optionally move to the bottom of a tab after reloading occurs to read the new content
- Reload all tabs in the current window or all browser windows
- Reload local files (file://)
- Optionally bypass form submissions
- Define a policy that prevents reloading based on the time (date) and URL
- Run custom JavaScript code on each reload.
- Reload only a few times and then stop.
- Reload discarded tabs in the current window or all windows
- Supports setting reloading jobs of all selected tabs at once
To disable an already activated tab, please make sure to switch to the tab first, then open the toolbar button and disable the job. Note that if you are closing the tab, there is no need to disable the job. The job will be disabled automatically after an active tab gets closed.
As of version 0.2.7, you can now ask the extension to automatically set new reloading jobs for you based on the "Custom JSON" object. If the option is checked and the new page has a matching hostname, the extension will load the custom reloading job from the JSON and applies to the tab. Check the options and FAQs pages for more info.
As of version 0.2.9, 1 you can define a policy that prevents reloading based on the time (date) and URL. Both time and URL keys accept regular expressions to prevent reloading. With the policies you can, for instance, prevent reloading on a specific page of a domain or prevent reloading at specific hours of a day.
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Key Info
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Rating:
4.2/5.0
(155 ratings)
- Users:100,000
- Version:0.6.6
- Updated:Jul 21, 2025
- Developer:Visit Website →
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