Per Google’s Permissions guidelines, this Medium Alert risk means you give the extension “ access to read, request or modify data from every page you visit (bank account, Facebook)“. The 5 most popular extensions I tested all required the “ read and change all your data on the websites you visit” permission. Usually I’d opt for one of the most popular extensions but, after reviewing them, most have privacy or security issues… Privacy issues in popular Chrome auto refresh Extensions Or quickly reload all pages (or selection of pages) manually or at the click of a button, as I reviewed previously.īut those methods still require manual effort – the beauty of using a Chrome extension is that you can configure a timer to automatically refresh a page (or selection of pages) at set intervals. Of course you can refresh a webpage manually, by pressing F5.
It can also help you stay logged into a site which would otherwise log you out after a few minutes of inactivity.
on a newspaper site with breaking news, you’ll see the latest headlines when you revisit the page. To do this go to Settings (the easiest way to do this is to type chrome://settings/ into the address bar and hit ENTER), then scroll down to On start-up and select Continue where you left off.It can be very useful to auto refresh Chrome pages if you want to keep them right up to date – e.g. There's a way to get it to reload all the tabs that you previously had open. Well, that's one way to deal with tab overload! 6: NO! I CLOSED MY BROWSER AND LOST ALL MY TABS 5: HELP! I CLOSED A TAB I NEEDED!Īccidentally closed a tab that you needed? You can resurrect it by hitting Ctrl-Shift-T on Windows or Command-Shift-T on Mac. I particularly like grabbing a bunch of tabs related to a single project and dragging them out into a new window.
Why do this? Well, after having selected multiple tabs, you can do things like drag them out into a new window or right-click on them and close them or mute them if they are emitting an annoying noise.
To do this, hold down CTRL in Windows or Command in Mac, and then click on the tabs you want to pick out of the vast ocean of tabs you have open. Now we come to one of the coolest features, which is the ability to select multiple tabs in Google Chrome.
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