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Clairvoyant Mode

Teach the site to see and keep the tabs you already have open — across Chrome, Safari, Edge, Brave, Arc and more.

The public site keeps any tab it opens for you. To instead hold open the tabs you already have — reloading them in place, never in a pop-up — a tiny helper runs on your own Mac and speaks to your browsers directly. The page then lists your real tabs and keeps whichever you choose.

The helper

One small file. No dependencies, no install, no account. It only listens on localhost and only ever reloads tabs you pick.

Download helper.mjs

Requires Node.js (macOS). Firefox can't be seen — it answers no automation.

Run it

  1. Open Terminal and go to where you saved the file (e.g. cd ~/Downloads).
  2. Start it: node helper.mjs
  3. Open localhost:1931 in any browser.
  4. The first time, macOS asks to let it control each browser — click OK (one blessing per browser, granted once). If you miss it: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation.
  5. Your open tabs appear. Tick the ones to keep, choose an interval, and press Keep selected alive.

The helper's clock runs outside the browser, so kept tabs keep refreshing even if you close this page — and it's immune to the tab-freezing that can pause dream mode.

The honest limits

Reloading resets a site's idle timeout — a reload is a real request, and the inactivity clock starts over. It cannot defeat absolute session lifetimes, token-refresh logins, or sites that watch for a human hand. A reload also discards anything unsaved in that tab. macOS only; Firefox stays beyond the veil.

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