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    Don't Lose Your Work — Pause Auto Refresh While You're Using the Page

    Pause Auto Refresh While Using the Page

    A common worry with Auto Refresh is losing work mid-task: you are filling in a form or reading a long article, the timer hits zero, and the page reloads from under you. The fix is built in — Auto Refresh can pause itself the moment you interact with the page, so the reload only happens while you are away.

    The setting that controls this is "Stop refreshing if click anywhere on the page" in the Advance Options panel. When you are done and want the timer to resume, restart it with the default shortcut Ctrl + D (customisable from the Refresh List).

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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 

    How to pause Auto Refresh while you work

    1. Open the Auto Refresh popup from the browser toolbar.
    2. Scroll to the Advance Options panel.
    3. Check "Stop refreshing if click anywhere on the page".
    4. Click Save and start Auto Refresh.

    From this point on, any click, keystroke or scroll on the page pauses the timer. Your form data, scroll position and selection stay intact for as long as you are interacting with the page.

    Resuming the timer after you are done

    • The default keyboard shortcut to restart Auto Refresh is Ctrl + D (Windows / Linux) or Cmd + D (macOS).
    • To change the shortcut, open the popup, switch to the Refresh List tab, and edit the keyboard binding for the page or preset.
    • You can also restart Auto Refresh from the popup itself — open it and press the start/play control.

    Also Read: https://auto-refresh.extfy.com/en/hotkey-controls.html