Always active Window - Always Visible icon

Always active Window - Always Visible

by brian.girko

v0.4.6 Updated Dec 16, 2025 51.05KiB
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★ 3.98
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Description

[Breaking Change] Version 0.4.0 and above. The extension must now be enabled for each hostname individually. This adjustment enhances the extension's performance, as the always-active feature can disrupt websites. To activate it, open the page requiring the always-active feature in a browser tab and click the action button once. The page will refresh, and the action button will turn blue. --- This extension protects against web pages tracking the activity state of the page. Some websites use this track to only offer services when the tab is active. By installing this extension a small script is injected into every webpage which overwrites the "document.visibilityState", and "document.hidden" properties to pretend the tab is always in the active state (document.visibilityState = 'visible' and document.hidden = false). This is useful for the webpages that check your visibility state before loading resources like many music webpages. By installing this extension even if the page is opened in the background page, the player will start immediately like the page is loaded on an active tab. Supported Trackings: document.mozHidden (only on Firefox browser) document.webkitHidden (only on Chromium browsers) Supported Events: 1. visibilitychange 2. webkitvisibilitychange (only on Chromium browsers) 3. mozvisibilitychange (only on Firefox browser) 4. blur (some websites require the user to keep the tab focused) 5. mouseleave (some websites use this method to make sure the user pointer is inside the window)
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Reviews (50 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-19
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Works bad

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-16
Lucza Gyuri

Not working on Facebook!

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-14
Patrick Caffrey

Not working on Facebook which is the only reason I added it to me extensions.

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-20
Baram Burum

simple doesnt work

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-21
finesthm

does not work, seems none of this type of extensions are working :)

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-19
callanyonefrompc

I thought for sure that this extension would work. But it does not. Not at all. At least not on the website that I wanted to use it on. On the Chrome Extensions page, I had it set to have access to All Sites. And on the extension settings, I set the hostname to *domainname.com*. I even toggled the extension off and back on and refreshed the website. Nothing worked.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-23
Daniel S

Doesn't work at all. Pages continue to automatically refresh (every few seconds on sites like Yahoo! News). It doesn't work on Facebook either. Don't bother with this extension. It's not worth the wasted bandwidth to download!

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-21
Lado Ristić

Doesn't work on Facebook anymore.

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-30
aigarsa

does not work unfortunately.

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-25
Marcela Bustamante

I downloaded this because it was supposed to stop Facebook refreshing. Sadly, there seems to have been an update that exempts Facebook, so it doesn't work. Any app or extension that quietly exempts companies or pages is unethical....

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-24
kradena horilka

don't work with twitch at all

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-26
eaglegrad 16

NOPE. Doesn't work with Chrome BETA. Guess it's just for the classic version which I upgraded from bc it was hijacked.

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-15
man baby

sadly didnt work on my canvas exam, prof said "the logs showed u left the tab", i got a zero on it

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-02
Kim Clifford

Not working with Edge browser. Facebook still refreshes.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-29
freebird1963

Not working for me with Facebook. Its still refreshing. Zucker sucks FYI. Chrome. Win 7 if any of that matters. Turned off all other extensions to see if there was a conflict but doesn't seem to be. Maybe some other setting but since no real troubleshooting guide can't tell.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-13
Seth Taylor Proffitt

Trash on chrome and firefox. not working on latest browser versions

★☆☆☆☆2024-09-22
Sanghani Dhruv

Not Working This Extension past version is excellent this version sooo bad.

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-02
Erin Shelly

Does not work as described; set to specific sites, yet fails to keep facebook from auto-refreshing.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-15
Raghavendra R

Is this extension working post the latest update ? Can someone lease let know, thanks! How do we test this if this is working or not ?

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-10
Demon1342

Stopped working in twitch after latest update

★☆☆☆☆2024-04-14
Miklós Kaboldy

I does not work for me on Facebook

★☆☆☆☆2024-01-16
cédric kévers

Loosing focus after 2 minutes...

★☆☆☆☆2023-12-22
Andrea Salvemini

It would be exactly what I need, if it only worked...the behaviour remain exactly the same as if I didn't install it on every page I tested (of course I re-started the browser after installing it). You can test if the app works using the built-in tool via chrome://discards No website worked with this extension, I even tried Wikipedia which is the example image of the extension's overview page. I would really happy to edit this review if someone would tell me that I'm doing something wrong and make it work, but until then this extension is useless.

★☆☆☆☆2023-12-14
Google Local Guide Pro

Not working at least on bing/copilot

★☆☆☆☆2023-12-03
Kuba Janisz

Doesn't work with Bing AI chat

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-06
Pankaj Sharma

Does it work for Cocubes/Aon Exam?

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-05
Recist Geymer

Doesn't work on Bing AI chat. Fix it and I'll consider rating 5 stars again.

★☆☆☆☆2023-09-01
trulyOffline

Does not work at the moment

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-18
Angelo Chan

Does not work. (Browser: Chrome. Use case: Games on the Kongregate website.)

★☆☆☆☆2023-05-13
JP DL

Doesn't works, discards page show the tab is hidden (the one i care about) it's also getting visibly throttled by chrome.

★☆☆☆☆2021-12-07
Gustavo Godoy

This simple doesnt work

★☆☆☆☆2021-06-03
Emirhan Çalışkan

NOT RECOMMENDED! My YouTube tooltips (little message boxes appear when you hover over an element, like button etc.) were malfunctioning because of this add-on

★☆☆☆☆2021-01-26
Abhay Kumar Verma

Sorry doesn't works. May be add a GitHub repo. I will open a issue. It's not working on chrome linux

★☆☆☆☆2020-03-29
Alex Griffith

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2020-02-02
So icarus

Not working

★★☆☆☆2025-04-23
jason

Stopped working. I'll make it 5-star when it's working again.

★★☆☆☆2024-07-24
Daniel Pasos

On Chromne the extension is only working On click. In Details, if you have it set to All sites or Specific sites, it doesn't work

★★☆☆☆2023-05-07
Foursidess

it mega doesnt work

★★☆☆☆2021-10-30
Vasya Pryanichkin

It does its job, but at a costly price. Chrome eats 40% of my quad-core CPU with it even if I close all tabs and leave just one empty new tab. Very suspicious.

★★☆☆☆2021-07-31
Terry Miller

I have this extension active for a single site/hostname and even still, I am seeing some kind of CPU usage bug (or malware) activity when the extension is running that results in around +20% CPU usage overall and 100% CPU usage on a single core. When I disable the extension, the CPU usage drops to normal levels. Hope this gets resolved so I can use the extension again.

★★★☆☆2025-04-23
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Same, it stopped working on April 2025, fb is refreshing.

★★★☆☆2025-04-09
ME Chapman

Right now I'm on the fence about it. I was just in FB and it refreshed the page. It had been working since I downloaded the app. So for about 5 hours. I was reading a stupid pop-up post they force us to have now and poof it was gone. Do I have my settings right? I added Facebook to the list and it says it's on.

★★★☆☆2024-12-16
Shone Sarode

Can someone comment if this works on canva quizzes?

★★★☆☆2024-09-05
Swarup Saw

Mouse enter event is being detected in the extension selft test, please fix that

★★★☆☆2024-07-29
Oliver Gillz

It was an awesome app but they changed it to be close till you click it open, it was way better the way around, when it was "always on till you click it off" now it useless for me. I've put 3 stars because its still working, but i would have put 5 if it was like before update. hope they will change it or to put a button that you can change between "open at start/close at start" kind of choice

★★★☆☆2024-06-22
leafbelly

The good: It does what it says and prevents pages from autorefreshing The bad: It completely wrecks your Chrome browser and slow most tabs to a crawl, spikes your CPU and RAM usage and causes some pages to freeze, interacts with Outlook email (highlighting sections of text) and is just terrible on your system. I applaud the effort, but this extension is, unfortunately, unusable.

★★★☆☆2024-04-10
Avith Ortega

I am using this to avoid the autorefresh thing of Facebook when changing tabs on Chrome, and it works. However after some time it started using 100% of my CPU for some seconds, and it constantly gets the Facebook page veery laggy.

★★★☆☆2023-03-22
Andrey Belikov

It does not work on trovo.live

★★★☆☆2021-09-27
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very high cpu usage!! i dont know whether this extension contains bugs or malicious code

★★★☆☆2021-05-22
Ibrahima Gaye Coulibaly

Does not work with react websites

Permissions (2)

Permissions

scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.4.6
Updated Dec 16, 2025
Size 51.05KiB
First Seen Mar 30, 2026