Stream Monitor Companion

Tracking since Apr 17, 2026.

Changelog

• Jun 5, 2026
  permissions

  tabs, storage, alarms

  tabs, storage, alarms, contentSettings

• May 11, 2026
  description

  Stream Monitor Companion is the browser-side half of Stream Monitor, a
  Windows desktop app that watches your favorite Twitch streamers and
  opens their stream the moment they go live.
  
  This extension handles everything that has to happen inside the browser:
  
  • Raid auto-close — when a streamer you're watching raids someone else,
    the tab closes automatically so you're not dragged into a channel you
    didn't pick. Optional "follow through one raid" mode lets you stay for
    a single hop.
  
  • Stays counted as a viewer — Twitch only counts unmuted players, but
    browsers block unmuted audio in background tabs. The extension keeps
    the Twitch player itself unmuted (so you still show up in the viewer
    count) while letting you mute the tab at the browser level.
  
  • Auto-mute tabs — optional toggle. Opens every Stream Monitor tab with
    the tab silenced so a dozen streams don't all shout at you at once.
  
  • Keepalive — periodically nudges the player to stop Twitch from
    dropping you as "idle" in background tabs, and dismisses "click to
    unmute" / content-gate overlays so streams keep running unattended.
  
  • Low-quality mode — optional. Sets every Stream Monitor tab to the
    lowest available quality to save bandwidth when you're watching many
    streams in the background.
  
  • Max-tabs limit — cap how many concurrent Stream Monitor tabs can be
    open at once.
  
  The extension only activates on tabs opened by the Stream Monitor
  desktop app (identified by a ?sm=1 query parameter). Tabs you open
  yourself are left completely alone.
  
  Requires the Stream Monitor desktop app running on the same PC.
  Download: https://github.com/caedicious/stream-monitor

  Stream Monitor Companion is the browser-side half of Stream Monitor, a
  Windows desktop app that watches your favorite Twitch streamers and
  opens their stream the moment they go live.
  
  This extension handles everything that has to happen inside the browser:
  
  • Raid auto-close — when a streamer you're watching raids someone else,
    the tab closes automatically so you're not dragged into a channel you
    didn't pick. Optional "follow through one raid" mode lets you stay for
    a single hop.
  
  • Stays counted as a viewer — Twitch only counts unmuted players, but
    browsers block unmuted audio in background tabs. The extension keeps
    the Twitch player itself unmuted (so you still show up in the viewer
    count) while letting you mute the tab at the browser level.
  
  • Auto-mute tabs — optional toggle. Opens every Stream Monitor tab with
    the tab silenced so a dozen streams don't all shout at you at once.
  
  • Keepalive — periodically nudges the player to stop Twitch from
    dropping you as "idle" in background tabs, and dismisses "click to
    unmute" / content-gate overlays so streams keep running unattended.
  
  • Low-quality mode — optional. Sets every Stream Monitor tab to the
    lowest available quality to save bandwidth when you're watching many
    streams in the background.
  
  • Max-tabs limit — cap how many concurrent Stream Monitor tabs can be
    open at once.
  
  • Auto-focus — new tabs is now ON by default to prevent
  streak loss when browsers open external links in background.
  Auto-recovers from Twitch's "Click Here to Reload Player"
  network error overlay (#2000)
  
  The extension only activates on tabs opened by the Stream Monitor
  desktop app (identified by a ?sm=1 query parameter). Tabs you open
  yourself are left completely alone.
  
  Requires the Stream Monitor desktop app running on the same PC.
  Download: https://github.com/caedicious/stream-monitor

Permissions & access

Permissions

tabsstoragealarmscontentSettings

Host access

http://127.0.0.1/*

Screenshots