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    Why a Checkbox "Re-Enables" Itself — Auto Refresh's URL-Specific Settings Explained

    Auto Refresh Checkbox

    If you uncheck an Advance Option and it appears to come back the next time you open the popup, the cause is almost always the same two-part behaviour: the checkbox state is saved per URL, and the change only takes effect once you click Save.

    In other words, Auto Refresh is not ignoring your click — it is showing you the saved state for the URL that is currently active in the popup. Once you understand the per-URL model, the "ghost checkbox" goes away.

    Step 1 — Open the popup on the URL you want to change

    Switch to the tab whose URL you want to update first. The popup reads its settings from the URL currently shown in the URL field, so opening it from a different tab will show that tab's saved state instead.

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    URL 

    https://example.com/dashboard

    Step 2 — Uncheck the option, then click Save

    In Advance Options, uncheck the checkbox you want disabled. The change is only kept after a Save click — closing the popup before saving will discard the change and the checkbox will look "re-enabled" the next time you open it.

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    Advance Options

     Refresh only on current tab 

     Stop after 3 number of auto refresh 

     Show visual timer on the webpage 

     Stop refreshing if click anywhere on the page 

     Hard Refresh 

    1. Uncheck the Advance Option you want disabled.
    2. Click Save at the bottom of the popup.
    3. Close and reopen the popup on the same URL — the checkbox should now stay unchecked.

    Why the option seems to "come back" on another URL

    By default, all Advance Options are disabled. But the moment you enable one on a URL, Auto Refresh stores that preference against that specific URL. The next time you open the popup on a different URL, you see the default state again — which can look like the checkbox is "re-enabling itself".

    • Disabling an option on URL A does not affect URL B, C, D…
    • To disable an option completely, open the popup on each URL where you previously enabled it and Save with the option unchecked.
    • This is intentional — it lets one tab refresh under one set of options while a different tab follows its own configuration, without the two interfering with each other.

    Quick recipe for an unattended tab

    1. Open the target URL in its own tab.
    2. Click the Auto Refresh icon to open the popup.
    3. In Advance Options, uncheck every option you do not want (for example "Stop refreshing if click anywhere on the page").
    4. Click Save.
    5. Start Auto Refresh on the tab — the URL will refresh on schedule without any of the disabled behaviours.

    If a setting still appears to come back after Save on the same URL, send us the URL pattern and a short screen recording — there are a couple of edge cases involving very long or fragmented URLs we can verify directly.