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Reviews for Tab Auto Refresh

Tab Auto Refresh by Alex

Rated 3,7 out of 5
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  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by arnofly, 5 maande gelede
    Simple, but do the job ;)
    The user interface is clean. You can set a refresh every each second if you want. Some extensions limit the refresh time at 5 or 10 seconds. So, when I can't use my favorite extension Live Reload (by Blaise Kal) that refresh the page only if a linked file is modified, I use this one. Thx
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13997589, 'n jaar gelede
    This is a pretty good add-on. If it allowed to edit the list of URLs as plain text, and to use basic regular expressions (for example, to set a refresh over a whole subdomain or subdirectory), I would give 5 starts without a doubt. It is specially useful combined with Instagram Web.
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by reoky, 'n jaar gelede
    Great plugin. If I could offer my feedback. If you added support for refreshing view-source pages, that would help for web dev.
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Firefox user 15247574, 2 jaar gelede
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Firefox user 15075305, 2 jaar gelede
    It would be great if it was counting in minutes instead of seconds. It would also be great IF it showed the Count Down on the Icon so that I can be prepared for a refresh and NOT loose my emails edits.
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Firefox user 14805740, 2 jaar gelede
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Firefox user 14706822, 2 jaar gelede
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Tony, 2 jaar gelede
    The extension works as advertised.

    The problem for me is that as soon as you click some link and the URL changes Tab Auto Refresh will turn off as it actually works per absolute URL and not per tab. There is no way to customised the URL and/or create some regex or wildcard for the URL like http://domain.com/path* or http://*.domain.com.

    This behavior is explained on the extension description but it's a pity the author doesn't address this shortcoming. I'm more than happy to give a 5-star rating if the author makes these changes.

    Tab Reloader extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-reloader) always reloads the tab whether the URL changes or not.
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Alberto T. Gomez, 3 jaar gelede
    Our extension that I've been program before in google and syncronized in our company and that is very helpful because you can use them add and easy to program. Am I right! you know whats happening before and you cannot deny me, Thanks Great Love.
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Hòa, 3 jaar gelede
    I like this extension more than other similar ones. But I'm using Tab Reloader extension instead of this one right now because Tab Reloader has 1 very useful feature that is not available in Tab Auto Refresh. The feature is if the tab is active, it won't be reloaded / refreshed. Hopefully, the feature will be added soon.

    One good-to-have feature is to allow users to turn off auto refresh for the current tab just by clicking the extension icon like Tab Reloader does.
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by mdsimmo, 3 jaar gelede
    Pretty good. Simple and effective. But doesn't work well when the page has post data. It keeps asking to confirm re-sending the data.
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13927350, 3 jaar gelede
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by syldub, 3 jaar gelede
    Brilliant!
    Improvement suggestion:
    Could you add an option to reset all Auto Refresh upon Firefox restart?
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13728155, 3 jaar gelede
    When it works, it works well. Sometimes it shows "Refresh = Off" but no way to turn it on. It takes a reboot to turn it on.
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by щщщ, 3 jaar gelede
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  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by xinyan, 3 jaar gelede
    Thank u for making this addon, it works fine but give a configuration when the tab is background to refresh is better. Mostly, the tab is no need to refresh when u working with it. Thank u again if u can improve it..
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13401427, 3 jaar gelede
    UI is wrong when I put icon on the menu.
    https://imgur.com/a/MRQYo
    the version is 56.0.2
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13401427, 3 jaar gelede
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by andrew, 4 jaar gelede
    Please, add context RMB-menu - for pages and tabs, as alternative to the button-menu.

    p.s. Do you have a github page ? )
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Alex Mills, 4 jaar gelede
    Works great in Firefox 57 (Developer Edition).

    My only wish is that I could type a refresh interval into the interface instead of having to use the up and down arrows.
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Noxasa, 4 jaar gelede
    Nice add-on if you use a single browser window. However, if you detach a tab from the main browser window this plugin no longer correctly identifies the url of the detached tab. Other than that, seems to work fine.
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