Bug: website time attributed to a site open in a background Chrome window, not the one I'm actually using
Setup: macOS 26.5.2, Rize 3.0.15, Chrome with 4 profiles and usually 2+ windows open.
Symptom: when a background Chrome window is parked on some site, Rize attributes large blocks of my day to that site — even while the foreground window (and often a different app entirely) is where I'm working. The site then bleeds into AI entry titles, reasoning, project attribution, and billable flags.
Concrete example, July 10: a background window sat on fieldtoreport.com for much of the day. Result — 8 of my 12 entries that day mention Field to Report in the AI title or reasoning, including these (entry IDs in case you can look up server-side):
Entry 14558572 (3:05–3:44pm MT, 38m, billable): AI title "Review Platform Documentation - Field to Report" — my corrected description reads "Figured out how to grant emma lifetime access to dreamcatcher" (completely different client/project). The day view showed ~82% of the block attributed to Field to Report.
Entry 14560191 (30m): AI title "Review Landing Page - Field to Report" — actual work per my description: "Troubleshooting loomola issues."
Entry 14553551 (24m): AI title "Edit Project Documentation - Field to Report" — actual: Vayu Labs content research.
Morning coding entries (14524640, 14529314) got "…while reviewing updates on Field to Report" appended to the reasoning, though the site was never in the foreground.
Independent corroboration: I run a separate local tool that screenshots the frontmost window every 5 seconds. For July 10 it shows ~14 minutes of genuine foreground fieldtoreport.com use, versus ~2 hours Rize attributed to that site (Rize's website list shows fieldtoreport.com at 2h30m for the week of Jul 10–17). I did do real Field to Report work that day in a different block (~15:30, local dev) — that part was attributed correctly; the problem is only the background-window bleed.
Likely mechanism (hypothesis): the active-site sampling appears to read the URL from a Chrome window that isn't the focused one when multiple windows/profiles are open. I hit an identical bug in my own tooling — AppleScript's front window on Chrome is the browser's internal z-order, which diverges from the macOS-focused (AXMain) window — and fixed it by matching the window by title. Sharing in case it helps.
Repro: 2+ Chrome windows across profiles → park a background window on any distinctive site → work in the other window / other apps → check what the day's entries attribute time to.
Happy to share more data (entry exports, timestamps) if useful.
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