Always active Window Chrome Extension Analysis
Automation & Workflow EfficiencyStore listing title: Always active Window - Always Visible
Chrome extension ID: ehllkhjndgnlokhomdlhgbineffifcbj
Always Active Window is a browser utility designed to prevent web pages from pausing content or refreshing due to inactivity. By spoofing 'document.visibilityState' and 'document.hidden' properties, it keeps sites believing the tab is active, which is intended to support uninterrupted media playback and resource loading.
Overview
Installs
300K+
Rating
★ 4.0
216 reviews
Languages
2 locales
Includes English, 한국어
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Automation & Workflow Efficiency
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
Moderate review signal
Listing positioning
The extension positions itself as a utility to prevent websites from detecting tab inactivity. It achieves this by injecting a script to overwrite browser visibility states, ensuring pages remain in an 'active' state even when backgrounded.
Inferred product pattern
Single-purpose script injection utility for browser state manipulation.
Review-backed pain points
Users consistently report that the extension fails to function as advertised on common sites like Facebook or Yahoo News, and some users note severe browser slowdowns when the extension is active.
Observed feature gaps
Lack of granular control or troubleshooting guides for specific site compatibility issues and high resource consumption during operation.
- Users with background media playback needs
- Power users managing background browser tasks
- Maintaining background tab activity
- Preventing auto-refresh on inactive pages
- Forcing consistent visibility state for specific websites
- Effectiveness for specific users prior to update
- Clear value proposition for background resource management
- Complete functional failure on modern websites
- Significant system performance degradation (CPU/RAM spikes)
- Inconvenient activation workflow required after 0.4.0 update
- Performance complaints detected
- None observed; the product is free.
Support
Users express frustration regarding the lack of troubleshooting documentation and difficulty making the tool work on specific domains.
Reliability
Multiple reports of total functional failure, browser freezing, and heavy system resource usage (CPU/RAM).
Privacy
None observed.
- Free usage observed
- No account requirement observed
- Free plan or free usage claimed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 1
- Videos: 1
- Languages: 2
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Version: 0.4.6
- Size: 51.05KiB
- Last updated:
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