Browser extension automatically reloads tabs after a set period of time, ideal for refreshing web pages like social media feeds, blogs, news sites, or any page that updates frequently.
Tab Auto Reload by Schuzak is a handy browser extension available for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Vivaldi. It allows you to set any open tab in your browser to automatically reload after a customized time period, ranging from 10 seconds to 1 day.
This is useful for many purposes - refreshing frequently updated pages like social media feeds, news sites, blogs that add new content often, web apps that time out after being idle, sports score tickers, and more. You can configure each tab individually or set a global reload time that applies to all open tabs.
The extension adds a simple menu to Chrome that lets you quickly start/stop auto-reloading on any tab or adjust the reload interval. It continues running in the background, persisting through new tabs, closed tabs, browser restarts, and computer restarts/sleeps. The background auto-reload uses very minimal browser resources.
Additional options include only reloading pages when they're visible/active in the foreground, not reloading pages with unsaved form changes, warning before reloading, and opening new tabs with auto-reload already enabled. It's a handy one-click solution for keeping any tab up-to-date automatically instead of manually hitting refresh.