Hi everyone!
I met several times an interesting and annoying bug. I am learning new words, and get an important message in other tab of Google Chrome (in Whatsapp web application for example). So I put the Pause button and go to another tab and sending messages. Unexpectedly while working in another tab I hear a learned word is prononced like the time ran out and the answer wasn’t given. When I come back to the Memrise tab, I really see the initial status - it thinks I missed the answer and reminds me again the word’s translation and mark the word as hard.
I suppose there is a bug which cancel pause if a button (Enter?) is pressed in the other tab.
You could disable the timer 
There is even a pause user script.
Thanks, but the bug will be still there. Anyway, how can I disable the timer? I don’t se that in the Settings. And I can’t deal with scripts.
From my experience, this problem occurs when you pause after answering one question, and before it’s moved on to the next one. Ever since I began to avoid pausing when the text box is lit green (showing a correct answer), I don’t think I’ve had it happen.
It would of course be nice to see the bug get fixed, but it’s unfortunately been around at least since I joined Memrise three years ago, and has been reported quite a few times.
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You need to install either Greasemonkey addon (Firefox) or Tampermonkey (Chrome).
There are NO ways to turn the timer off in the Memrise settings offically.
Once you have it installed, the addon auto-recognizes .JS extensions, and gives you a prompt for installing the (called) script.
You do not have to do anything besides going to the JS (raw) direct URL once.
The first JS opens the code, the raw button usually prompts for installation.
Memrise Timer Disabler 0.1.1: http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/174879 / 174879.user.js = raw
Memrise Timer Controls https://greasyfork.org/de/scripts/5001-memrise-timer-controls (I use the other; have not tested those two buttons / can not see them because of the Disabler)
Memrise Auto-Pause (I have that disabled for now, tested it once): If you move away from the tab / window, it jumps in
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Hi @Gennadiy82, can you confirm if you’re experiencing the same problem mentioned by TinyCaterpillar.
When you’re no longer focused on the Memrise, the session should automatically be paused. I wonder if your problem could be related to what was previously said.
Hi @Joshua, yes, TinyCaterpillar was perfectly right! If I pause immediatelly after answering, when the answer is marked as green, and then “unpause” in 5 seconds, I found out that the timer of the next word is somewhere in the middle position.