Session Alive

Keep your Session Alive at any website and never get logged out. Forget the session timeout messages. Multi-Account Containers supported.
What is Session Alive?
'Session Alive' is a Firefox extension designed to keep your session active on any website - helping you to avoid automatic logouts due to session timeouts. With this add-on, webpages are reloaded in the background, thereby keeping the user session active even when you are not doing any activities on the website. It supports Multi-Account Containers and provides options for both background and foreground page reloading. Moreover, the rule for page reload can be manually stopped by the user or automatically stopped based on server responses. This add-on also offers advanced options for web programmers.
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By: Arun
Users: 2,311 ▲ 2
Rating: 3.64 (36)
Version: 2.3 (Last updated: 2024-02-23)
Creation date: 2018-04-12
Weekly download count: 51
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • notifications
  • storage
  • contextualIdentities
  • cookies
Size: 129.42K

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

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  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.

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Works well for some users and for specific sites, helping to maintain sessions and prevent timeouts.
  • Easy to configure and use, with clear functionality.
  • Has been very useful for users with frequent session timeouts, especially on banking and appointment websites.
Cons
  • Does not work consistently across all websites, with multiple users reporting failure on sites like Chase and WealthSimple.
  • Issues with rules dropping or not being detected, requiring manual page refresh or frequent restarts.
  • Some users experienced notifications even when the browser was not in focus.
Most mentioned
  • Does not work for certain sites.
  • Easy to use and configure.
  • Helps prevent session timeouts.
Recent reviews
Didn't work, on the one website I needed it for (Chase). Uninstalled. Might try again if I need to use another super annoying short timeout website.
by Firefox user 18465282, 2024-11-06
I tried this on Secret Server and the oVirt admin UI, it didn't work on either one. I had the refresh interval set to 1 minute, it still logged me out.
by Firefox user 18569410, 2024-08-26
Seems to work perfectly well when used as designed. Suggestion: provide detail on what the server returned when the status was not 200.
by omf, 2024-06-27
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Risk impact

Session Alive requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Session Alive is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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