Schedule pause keeps your session saved and resumes in the next window. Stop ends the session until you press Start.
Those two states look similar in a quiet tab — no reload fires — but they mean different things in Auto Refresh Turbo. Mixing them up is the most common reason people think the extension “quit overnight.”
Schedule paused
With a daily schedule enabled, you set start and end times on the local clock. Inside the window, refresh runs with your interval, random range, hard refresh, and other toggles. Outside the window, the session is paused:
- Interval and options stay saved
- Reload should not fire until the window opens again
- The popup should indicate a schedule pause, not a silent failure
Full walkthrough: daily refresh schedule.
Stopped
Stop ends the active session for that tab. Nothing resumes on its own. You must open the popup and press Start again (or start another tab’s session). Use Stop when you are done for the day and do not want an automatic wake-up.
Side-by-side
- Schedule pause — saved settings; resumes with the clock
- Stop — session ended; manual Start required
- Stop after N — ends after a fixed number of reloads (like a planned Stop)
- Stop on click/type — interaction can end refresh so a reload does not hit mid-edit
- Suspicious-page stop — heuristic may end the session on error/challenge-looking pages
Read the popup status line before you change intervals.
When to choose pause
Office walls, classroom displays, and shared machines benefit from a window: run 08:00–19:00, stay quiet overnight, resume tomorrow without retyping settings. Battery-friendly laptops get fewer useless cycles when nobody is watching.
When to choose Stop
Incident over, laptop packing up, or you are about to edit the same tab heavily — Stop is clearer than hoping a window ends soon. If you only needed a short QA burst, stop-after-N may fit better than an open-ended session.
How to configure a window
- Open a normal
https://tab - Open Auto Refresh Turbo
- Enable Schedule; set Start and End
- Set interval (fixed or random)
- Press Start and confirm one in-window reload
Near the end of a window you may see a pause quickly — that is expected.
Random intervals, midnight, and travel
A random min–max range still applies only while the window is open. Outside the window you should see pause, not a random surprise reload at 03:00.
Windows that cross midnight depend on how the range is interpreted — test once with a short interval. Laptop timezone changes move the window with the system clock; after travel, glance at Start/End before trusting overnight behavior.
Multi-tab independence
Each tab has its own schedule toggle and times. A NOC board can pause evenings while a personal queue tab runs 24/7 without a schedule.
If reload “died” at 18:01
Check whether the window ended at 18:00. That is pause, not breakage. Then check interaction stop and suspicious-page stop. Guide: troubleshooting.
Try it
Install Auto Refresh Turbo, set a short window, and watch pause vs resume once so the difference is muscle memory.