Recently Alien Worlds introduced a small but useful feature - sound notification when the charge time expires and the miner is ready for a new round. This saves me the extra work of setting external timer manually (which I often forgot to do) and improves the mining efficiency. Unfortunately it works only for "ready to mine" event, but does not notify on "ready to claim". The mining process usually takes between 20 seconds and 1 minute but can extend to several minutes and thus become a problem for faster builds (which are most efficient otherwise). What is worse, I often start doing something else immediately after clicking the "Mine" button and forget to click "Claim" when it becomes available. After wasting lots of mining rounds this way, I think I've finally found a (hopefully) legal workaround.
The key is to use Firefox Multi-Account Containers add-on and open Alien Worlds simultaneously in two containers. Despite this "Multi-Account" in the name, I'm using single account in both containers. Multi accounts are strictly forbidden in AW!
What Are These Containers Really
It's documented on the support page:
Container tabs are like normal tabs however the sites you visit will have access to a separate slice of the browser's storage. This means your site preferences, logged in sessions, and advertising tracking data won't carry over to the new container. Likewise, any browsing you do within the new container will not affect your logged in sessions, or tracking data of your other containers.
As I'll explain later - the important part are not multi-accounts but the "separate slice of the browser's storage" thing.
Firefox on my laptop is installed as Portable App and although it has the Multi-Accounts add-on enabled, it is missing the container icon in the toolbar. It is replaced by the Facebook container, so to manage containers I have to open Firefox settings and select Container Tabs settings in the Tabs section:
There are several predefined containers which I don't plan to use at this stage. For Alien Worlds I created 1 new container, labelled it Alien Worlds - 1 and colored in green. Now I can right-click on Alien Worlds tab and open it in this Green container:
In a similar way I created the blue container and labelled it Alien Worlds - 2 so now my Firefox looks like this:
I have logged in with the same account in both and they are both ready to mine. I start mining in Green, wait till it's ready and claim the rewards as usual. Now the Green container has this:
and the Blue is still:
Seems it never bothers to check what is the actual state of the miner and still thinks it's ready. Now I can start mining in the Blue and if no bugs get in the way I will soon see the "claim" button. Of course it is not possible to claim before the timer in the Green has expired, but as soon it does I'll be able to claim the tiny amount of TLM without losing precious time waiting to mine.
After claiming in the Blue, it starts counting the time to mine, while the Green still has "Mine" button available as it is unaware that Blue has claimed and so the process of finding next nonce can start.
In conclusion - the essence of this method is that mining happens in parallel with recharging - something very useful when using fast builds like 3 drills on Geothermals.
I've been using this method for about 8 hours, it was cumbersome at first but getting used to it with time. The main disadvantage is that the notification is not working so some external utility like alarm.alienworlds.tools is still needed