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Reviews for Tab Reloader (page auto refresh)

Tab Reloader (page auto refresh) by James Fray

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Review by Chauncey
by Chauncey, 8 years ago
This app used to work great, but suddenly stopped working entirely. Clicking on "enable" on the icon gets it to change to "active" and increment the number of tabs using the feature, but actually NOTHING is done. The timer doesn't work; the "disable/enabled" button doesn't change. Nothing.

And yet the developer is still allowing downloads and asking for $10.00 contributions, knowing that the extension has not functioned in at least several months. Comments on the developer's website are ignored (it has been reported repeatedly).

I moved to a different (not as good as this one used to be) tab reloader add-on so I can continue to get automatic tab refreshing on websites that don't offer that, but miss some of the features that this one had when it was still working.

I would rate this ZERO stars if that were an option.
436 reviews
  • by Yarik, 4 days ago
    it looks good, but for some reason I can't select less then 10s, I want to select 1s for building web-sites, 10s works but it would be nice if I could set it to be 1s
  • by honjik, 8 days ago
    love the customization
  • by HonestReviews, 11 days ago
    5-17-25
    Junk addon doesn't work. Does not maintain pages same as without it. No matter what the settngs.
  • by Jidáš, 14 days ago
  • by USER-EXPERIENCEONLY, 19 days ago
    5-9-2025-doesn't work. Does not keep tabs connected. Worthless no matter what the settings.
  • by Espada, 21 days ago
    In general, it is a really good extension. The problem is, I use this headlessly to monitor a website, and this has a fairly major memory leak causing Firefox to eventually crash, it also causes Firefox to run stupidly slowly, needing a stop and restart to fix. This may be okay for some, but when I don't actively monitor this box, it is for me.
  • by Fiy, 25 days ago
    documentation is definitely not adapted to non-coders, there is little GUI and you're left to write json yourself.
    it seems you need to write a json script just to keep reloading rules between sessions.
    generally hard to know how you're supposed to achieve something if you can't code.
  • by FESSUL ProcInst, 2 months ago
  • by Firefox user 15140634, 2 months ago
  • by Surya, 2 months ago
  • by Mostaza_Sensei, 2 months ago
  • by gothicserpent, 3 months ago
    Works really well to refresh my merrill edge page so i can actively monitor my portfolio real-time. Thanks!
  • by Firefox user 18834434, 3 months ago
    VERY NICE
  • by Dgrim, 3 months ago
    Wanted this for one reason only. To stop Facebook from reloading my timeline every fucking time I switch between tabs. But It does not prevent this.
  • by Netrom, 3 months ago
    I really like the concept and base functionality, however I have one issue. When creating a custom job by shift-clicking (match full URL) it doesn't work - it continues to reload even when the URL changes. Secondly, a suggestion: would really like the ability to not only play a sound, but also (and/or) display a notification when a change occurs. Also it would be great to monitor for selected keywords and only notify select changes, rather than *any* change. Thanks for your work.

    Edit: I used "run policy code" to circumvent the match URL issue. For anyone interested the code I used: "document.currentScript.dataset.continue = window.location.toString().includes("URL");"

    I assume it may be possible to show notifications by utilizing the "run JS code" option, but I don't know JS. If anyone do, please share :)
  • by Bobb Li, 3 months ago
  • by T.H., 4 months ago
  • by Byron Taaka, 4 months ago
    Works as Expected. consider removing/reducing the 10seconds minimum allowed time for refreshing, to make the extension useful for those giving 1star rating.
  • by Dreamliner, 4 months ago
  • by luke3001, 4 months ago
  • by Firefox user 13443820, 4 months ago
    not useful at all
  • by AmberMera007, 5 months ago
  • by Kay, 5 months ago
  • by Adam, 5 months ago
    Does what I wanted it to do! Reloads pages so they don't time out!
  • by Doomsmoker, 5 months ago