See every refresh coming.

Practical guide

A refresh counter and countdown on the page

Once a refresh is running, a small pill appears in the corner of the page. It shows how many times the page has reloaded, the seconds left until the next one, and a thin progress bar.

You can pause, resume or stop from the pill itself, without opening the popup.

Put it where it suits you

Drag the counter anywhere on the page and it stays there after the next reload. It is drawn separately from the website, so it looks the same on every site and cannot be broken by the page's own styling.

What the colours mean

Green and pulsing: running. Amber: paused. Purple: finished on a limit. Red: a watch rule matched.

Or use the toolbar icon instead

Prefer nothing on the page? Switch the on-page badge off. The extension icon can then show the refresh count, a countdown to the next refresh, or nothing. Pick whichever you like under Display.

A worked example

Start a 60-second refresh on a status page. A dark pill appears bottom right: a green dot, the number 1 with the word refreshes, and 59.4s counting down above a thin bar that fills as the reload approaches. Drag it to the top left so it does not cover the page's own chat button. It will be there, in that spot, after every reload.

Refresh countdown in the toolbar

Under Display, Toolbar icon shows has three choices. Number of refreshes is the default. Time until the next refresh turns the icon's badge into a countdown, showing seconds, then minutes for longer waits. Nothing keeps the icon clean.

The toolbar badge is per tab, so each tab shows its own count or countdown when you switch to it.

Common questions about the counter

It covers something I need to click

Drag it elsewhere, or switch it off and use the toolbar countdown.

It shows Waiting, you are typing

Smart pause has delayed the refresh because you typed recently. It retries every few seconds.

It says Countdown restarted

You clicked or scrolled with that pause option on, and the wait began again.

Works with every other feature

The counter reflects whatever is happening: checking the page for a watch rule, paused, finished on a limit, or stopped on a match. It is the quickest way to see the state of a tab at a glance.

At a glance

• Always visible. No need to open the popup to check progress. The count and countdown update live.
• Never breaks the page. The counter is isolated from the site's own styles and scripts, so it looks the same everywhere.
• Toolbar countdown too. The extension icon can show the refresh count, the seconds until the next refresh, or nothing at all.