Session Alive Autor: Arun

Keep your session alive for any website. Install and forget the session timeout messages. Multi-Account Containers supported.

TL;DR:

1. Sign-in to your website to navigate to the Dashboard/Welcome Page
2. Click the + Add a Rule for this page button.
3. Page is reloaded and Your session is now alive!

Almost all websites with authentication has a session timeout. If you are inactive in the website for some time then your session may be expired. You need to login again to perform any action in the website.

This extension will keep your session from expiring by reloading your website in the background. This will keep your session alive without manually reloading website even you are inactive in the website for long period of time.

New Feature: Support for Multi-Account Containers

Background page request
This option keep the session alive by requesting page in the background using AJAX requests, and page reload is not required and unsaved changes are not lost.
Set the Background trigger URL as your website dashboard/ welcome URL, set the Interval and save. Navigate to the Trigger URL in a New Tab and Your session is now alive!

Automatic stopping of Background page request
The rule is automatically stopped by analyzing the server response.

Foreground page reload
The Background page reload will not be enough to keep the session alive, if websites implements JavaScript idle timer in the browser itself. The Foreground page reload option can overcome this limitation.
This option keep the session alive by auto-reloading current page in the browser.

Automatic stopping of Foreground page reload
The rule is automatically stopped if the user navigates away from the Trigger URL.

Notifications
Browser Notifications can be set for the page reload success/ fail conditions.

Advanced Options
For advanced users, (who knows web programming) can utilize this option to override JavaScript idle timer of the website.

Disable a rule
The rule can be disabled if you want to temporarily stop the rule from triggering.

Easily create and edit rules in the settings page, and also try the different options available to suit your needs.

Permissions Requested

1. Access your data for all websites : required to inject a JavaScript code to all the webpages which is activated only when a rule is running.
2. Access browser tabs : required to access the browser tab where the rule is running.
3. Display notifications to you : required to display Browser Notifications with the status of the running rule.

Session Alive extension is Open Source. If you want to contribute to this project or encounter any issues please visit: https://github.com/arunelias/session-alive

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