RefreshFlow - Auto Tab Refresh

RefreshFlow is the most intelligent auto-refresh extension for Chrome. Whether you're monitoring a live stock price, waiting for a job post, tracking a sports score, or testing a web app — RefreshFlow keeps your tabs refreshed automatically, with zero effort. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ REFRESH MODES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Fixed interval — refresh every N seconds or minutes (from 1 second up) • Random interval — refresh at a random time between a min and max range, to avoid detection patterns • Scheduled time — refresh at a specific clock time daily (e.g. every day at 9:00 AM) or once on a specific date • Refresh All Tabs — start auto-refresh on every open tab in one click ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 SMART PAUSE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RefreshFlow detects when you're actively using the page and pauses automatically: • Typing in a form or text field — never lose your input to an unexpected reload • Video is playing — YouTube, Netflix, Twitch, and any HTML5 player • Audio is playing — podcast players, music sites, streaming apps Refresh resumes automatically when activity stops. No configuration needed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 DOM CHANGE & KEYWORD MONITOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Stop refreshing blindly. RefreshFlow can watch the page for you: • Keyword detect — get an alert the moment a specific word appears on the page (e.g. "In Stock", "Apply Now", "Winner") • DOM change selector — watch a specific element on the page; get notified when its content changes • Desktop notification + sound alert on match • Task auto-pauses when a match is found so you don't miss it Perfect for: stock availability alerts, job listings, sports score changes, government portals, auction pages. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 URL CYCLING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Add a list of URLs and RefreshFlow will cycle through them automatically — useful for rotating dashboards, monitoring multiple pages in a single tab, or cycling through a content feed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖱️ CLICK SIMULATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Instead of reloading the whole page, trigger a click on a specific element (by CSS selector). Ideal for single-page apps, infinite scroll feeds, and "Load more" buttons — without disrupting the page state. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ COUNTDOWN RING & BADGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Animated countdown ring in the popup shows exactly how long until the next refresh — color shifts from green → amber → red as time runs out • Live badge counter on the extension icon shows the remaining seconds at a glance • Reload count tracker so you know how many times a tab has refreshed ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ ADVANCED OPTIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Any page on domain — one task refreshes every tab on a domain automatically • Hard reload (bypass cache) — forces a full cache-clearing reload • Per-reload desktop notification — get a system notification each time a tab refreshes • Quick Presets — save your favourite refresh configurations and apply them in one click • Draft persistence — your popup settings are saved even when Chrome closes the popup • Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+R to toggle, Ctrl+Shift+P to pause all, Ctrl+Shift+S to stop all • Right-click context menu — start, pause, or stop refresh without opening the popup ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 STATISTICS DASHBOARD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Track total reloads, top refreshed domains, daily refresh counts, and background event logs — all in the built-in dashboard. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RefreshFlow is 100% local. No data is ever sent to any server. Everything runs in your browser using Chrome's built-in storage APIs. No account required, no telemetry, no tracking. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 POPULAR USE CASES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Waiting for concert / event tickets to go on sale ✔ Monitoring stock prices, crypto prices, or forex rates ✔ Tracking job postings on LinkedIn, Indeed, or government portals ✔ Refreshing sports scores or live match updates ✔ Watching auction pages (eBay, government tenders) ✔ Monitoring product restock (sneakers, electronics, PS5) ✔ Web developers testing live reloads and dashboards ✔ Rotating display screens and kiosk monitors ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • tabs — to read the current tab URL and reload tabs • storage — to save your refresh tasks and settings locally • alarms — for reliable scheduled refresh even when the tab is in the background • notifications — for keyword match alerts and per-reload notifications • scripting — to inject the smart-pause detector into pages • contextMenus — for right-click refresh controls • idle — future: pause refresh when the machine is idle