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Colab Autorun and Connect by Teal Dulcet

Automatically connect, reconnect and optionally run the first cell of notebooks in Google Colab.

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Automatically connect, reconnect and optionally run the first cell of notebooks in Google's Colaboratory (Colab) service.
  • Automatically connects to notebooks
  • Automatically reconnects to notebooks
  • Optionally automatically runs the first cell
  • Desktop notifications when the notebooks change state
  • Optionally rotate through Colab tabs when the system is idle or locked *
  • Page action popup with the notebooks status and a stopwatch
  • Use a keyboard shortcut to quickly open the popup (by default Ctrl+Alt+C)
  • Detailed information output to the console
  • Supports the light/dark mode of your system automatically
  • Settings automatically synced between all browser instances and devices
  • Follows the Firefox Photon Design
  • Compatible with Firefox for Android

❤️ Please visit tealdulcet.com to support this extension and my other software development.

ℹ️ Note that this likely requires the Colab interface to be in English to work.

* Tab rotate does not currently work well on Windows because of Bug 1615885.

Please do NOT use this add-on for doing cryptocurrency mining, as that is disallowed in Colab.

Reviews are not monitored for bug reports. Please use the GitHub repository to report any issues or make feature requests: https://github.com/tdulcet/Colab-Autorun-and-Connect
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This add-on likely requires the Colab interface to be in English to work.
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  • Access your data for colab.research.google.com
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Version
1.3.3
Size
96.83 KB
Last updated
4 days ago (Aug 3, 2025)
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Release notes for 1.3.3
  • Added a button to options page to open the shortcut settings (requires Firefox 137 or greater)
  • Fixed regression with one of the popups
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