Session Alive

Keep your Session Alive at any website and never get logged out. Forget the session timeout messages. Multi-Account Containers supported.

Session Alive Add-On for Firefox: Avoid Session Timeouts

'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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Add-on stats

By: Arun
Users: 2,343
-34
Rating: 3.65
(37)
Version: 2.3 (Last updated: 2024-02-23)
Creation date: 2018-04-12
Weekly download count: 49
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low 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

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Pros
  • Helps prevent session timeouts on various websites.
  • Easy and obvious to configure.
  • Works well for some specific applications.
  • Very useful for managing session time on sites that disconnect frequently.
Cons
  • Does not work consistently across all websites.
  • Requires frequent restarting and manual refreshing.
  • Some users report it does not detect rules properly.
  • Issues with sites like Chase and WealthSimple.
Most mentioned
  • It does not work for all websites.
  • Some users experience frequent disconnections despite using the add-on.
  • Easy to set up but may need manual intervention.
User reviews
by Jen, 2024-11-25
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
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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 has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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