What is Session Alive?

Session Alive is a Chrome extension developed by Arun, and its main feature is "Keep your Session Alive at any website and never get logged out...".

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Download Session Alive Extension CRX File

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Extension Usage Instructions

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.
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.

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

Always assess the safety of any extension before installing. Here are tips for assessing the safety of an extension https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9897812?hl=en

Extension Basic Information

Name	Session Alive
ID	aodfoiacnmepndhojccepdcpmehjbham
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/session-alive/aodfoiacnmepndhojccepdcpmehjbham
Description	Keep your Session Alive at any website and never get logged out...
File Size	118 KB
Installation Count	11,138
Current Version	2.2
Last Updated	2022-08-04
Publish Date	2022-08-03
Rating	3.89/5 Total 9 Ratings
Developer	Arun
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	https://github.com/arunelias/session-alive/
Help Page URL	https://github.com/arunelias/session-alive/issues
Supported Languages	de,en,fr,nl,es
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