How to prevent websites from timing out?

Appreciate the feedback, and good job on solving it. As of this post, there are no explicit browser refresh tools among Safari extensions shown in the Mac App Store. The following will reload the current window or tab in Safari via AppleScript:

use scripting additions

if application "Safari" is running then
	tell application "Safari"
		tell front document
			do JavaScript "window.location.reload();"
		end tell
	end tell
end if



Always something to complicate things…

They may have it configured so that only a single sign-in is permitted per account, and those sign-ins are restricted to that 15 minute window. Does the financial site ask random, security questions, based on answers you have provided beforehand? If it has this form of forced interactivity to thwart non-human access, then there would be two impassable restrictions:

1. Single sign-on per account holder, with the timer commencing after sign-in
2. Random challenge questions to prevent what you want to do with poking the site to extend the sign-in period

Does simply refreshing your browser session serve to reset the timer?

Does the website hosting provider offer a means to control that site timeout via hosting software made available to you (their control panel), or on request? I would go there before attempting to create something on the client side to spoof the website timeout settings.

atthecshore wrote:

The reloading question helped my figure out the solution.

Since reloading the browser tab did reset the timer, I found an extension that does this. I'm forced to use Chrome for this particular website, so downloaded a Chrome extension called "Tab Reloader." It's a very simple extension where you can set a timer from 10 seconds to 10 days and it works great.

I'd imaging there's a similar version available for Safari, but if you need this functionality for some website, then just use Chrome and this extension.

excellent resolve atthecshore