A Chrome browser extension for automatically refreshing tabs.
Installation is done with an unpacked extension. This requires downloading a release (or cloning this repo) and then loading it in Chrome.
In a tab you want refreshed, click on the extension's toolbar icon to have the current tab reload every 5 minutes. To stop reloading click on the toolbar icon again.
The toolbar icon may be hidden inside the toolbar's extension menu (🧩).
I am aware there are Chrome extensions out there that do this sort of thing. Unfortunately all of the ones I saw required more permissions than I felt comfortable with, especially given that I couldn't see the source code. So it became an excuse to learn a bit about Chrome extensions and write something that you could quickly audit yourself to be sure it doesn't do anything sketchy.
The Repeat icon is by Icons8.