Auto-start rules

PRO An auto-start rule watches the pages you open. The moment a page's address matches the rule's pattern, refreshing starts by itself — no popup, no Start button. Open your queue page, and it's already refreshing.

🌐 You open a page
it finishes loading → 🎯 URL matches a rule
e.g. *queue* → 🔄 Refreshing starts
with that rule's settings

No clicks needed — a matching address is enough to start the job.

Where to set them up

Auto-start rules are edited only in the web dashboard, on its Autostart Rules page — the popup has no editor for them. If you haven't opened the dashboard yet, see The web dashboard — it's one click from the popup, no account needed.

How patterns work

A pattern is just a piece of text compared against the page's full address. Two flavours:

No * in the pattern → "contains" match. The rule fires if the pattern appears anywhere in the address. example.com matches every page on that site.
With * → wildcard match. Each * means "anything here", and the pattern is checked against the whole address.

Either way, capital letters don't matter — matching is case-insensitive.

Pattern	Matches
`example.com/queue*`	Any address containing `example.com/queue` followed by anything — the queue page and everything under it.
`dashboard`	Any address with the word "dashboard" anywhere in it, on any site.

Each rule carries its own settings

A rule isn't just a pattern — it holds a complete refresh setup of its own, edited right inside the rule using the same Refresh and (optional) Monitor sections you know from the rest of the dashboard: interval, refresh options, keywords, match actions, everything. So your queue rule can refresh every 30 seconds and watch for "new ticket", while your status-page rule refreshes every 5 minutes with no monitoring at all. Rules don't touch your normal defaults.

Each rule also has its own Enabled switch, so you can pause a rule without deleting it.

Exactly when a rule fires

A rule starts refreshing when all of these are true:

a normal web page (http/https) finishes loading,
its address matches the rule's pattern,
no refresh job is already running on that tab (a rule never interrupts or replaces one), and
the rule is enabled and your install has PRO.

work.example.com/queue/inbox

The address matched example.com/queue* — so the page started refreshing on its own the moment it loaded.

A real example

Open the dashboard's Autostart Rules page and add a rule.
Pattern: work.example.com/queue*.
In the rule's settings, set a fixed 30-second interval and a monitor keyword like new ticket with a notification.
Save. From now on, whenever you open the queue — first thing in the morning, after lunch, on any computer synced to this install — it's already refreshing and watching.

ℹ️ Auto-start reacts to opening a page. If you want refreshing to begin at a time of day instead, use Weekly schedules.

💡 Next: with several pages refreshing at once, keep an eye on all of them from The Tabs dashboard — every running job and every alert in one list.