It wont effect any of the existing runs because they're fairly common sense. But I'm adding the stats screen should be visible and the player must use a timer such as w-split or Livesplit. Sorry for any inconvenience they may cause.

Questions that mainly correlate to Hardcore:

Is it against the rules to change the zoom of the window? (zooming in will make going between clicking and buying faster)

Is saving and refreshing the page against the rules? (Effects golden cookie effect chances at the cost of having to wait for the page to refresh. Can save the game by holding CTRL+S) Saving and refreshing will load the game without being on the stats screen.

I'm assuming the stats screen must be shown at all times, and that resizing the window to click more cookies that spawn during cookie storm would be against the rules because you can't see the stats screen.

Zooming is fine, refreshing is a bit suspect because you can easily splice a run this way. I think we would need a discussion to see what everyone thinks.