Your first auto-refresh
Sixty seconds, start to finish: open a page, pick how often, press Start — and the page reloads itself while a little bubble counts down. Here's the whole walkthrough, plus three ways to stop.
This is the goal: the page reloads on its own, and the overlay bubble shows the countdown to the next reload.
The 60-second walkthrough
- Open the page you want to keep fresh — a sold-out product, a ticket queue, a live blog, a work dashboard.
- Click the Refresh Pilot icon in your toolbar. The popup opens on its Interval tab. (Icon not visible? See pinning the icon.)
- Pick how often. The big stepper starts at
30seconds — a good first choice. Or tap a preset chip:5s,10s,30s,1m,5m,15m. More on this in Refresh intervals. - Press Start. The popup closes and the page begins refreshing.
- Watch the overlay. A small pill appears in the bottom-right
corner of the page: a countdown to the next reload, a
×countof refreshes so far, and pause/stop buttons.
Three ways to stop
- On the page — click the ✕ button on the overlay pill. (The ❚❚ button next to it pauses instead.)
- From the popup — click the icon again and press Stop.
- From the keyboard — press Alt+Shift+R. This shortcut toggles: it stops a running refresh, and starts one (with your last-used settings) when nothing is running.
Alt+Shift+R starts or stops auto-refresh on the tab you're looking at — no popup needed.
Where to go from here
Refreshing is only half the story. The toolbar icon shows a live countdown badge while a tab refreshes, and the monitor can watch the page for a keyword — "in stock", a price, an appointment — and alert you the moment it appears, so you don't have to watch the screen at all.