Merlin
Session Alive

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: 2,236 ▲ 22
Rating: 3.81 (32)
Version: 2.3 (Last updated: 2024-02-23)
Creation date: 2018-04-12
Weekly download count: 57
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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Pros
  • Prevents session timeouts on various websites
  • Easy to configure and use
  • Helps stay logged into sites with a short timer
  • Works well with apps that sign users out frequently
  • Useful on websites with timed appointments
Cons
  • Doesn't work on all websites
  • Often drops a rule while in execution
  • Seems to stop working when Windows is suspended
  • Still get timeout messages and logged out on some sites
  • Doesn't work in foreground or background mode
Most mentioned
  • Useful for bypassing session timeouts
  • Does not work on all sites
  • Easy to setup and use
  • Needs frequent restart or manual page refresh
  • Can't wait for the Multi-Container support
Recent reviews
Doesn't work for me, neither in foreground nor background mode
by Laurent, 2024-01-03
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Safety
Risk impact

Session Alive is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Session Alive if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

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

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