diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/WefLab/WefLabWebSocketClient.cs b/Assets/Scripts/WefLab/WefLabWebSocketClient.cs
index 56755ff7d..815c5479c 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/WefLab/WefLabWebSocketClient.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/WefLab/WefLabWebSocketClient.cs
@@ -301,6 +301,10 @@ namespace WefLab
         private string userIdx = ""; // Will be extracted from page (shared by every socket)
         private bool isExtracting = false;
 
+        // One-time init guard: the page/config extraction runs only on the first enable;
+        // later enables (after a disable) just re-open the already-built connections.
+        private bool initialized = false;
+
         // Duplicate-donation guard: signature -> last seen Time.time
         private readonly Dictionary<string, float> recentDonations = new Dictionary<string, float>();
 
@@ -311,10 +315,44 @@ namespace WefLab
         private Queue<Action> mainThreadActions = new Queue<Action>();
         private object actionLock = new object();
 
-        void Start()
+        void OnEnable()
         {
-            // Extract user idx from page URL and then connect
-            StartCoroutine(ExtractUserIdxAndConnect());
+            if (!initialized)
+            {
+                // First activation: extract user idx + config from the page, then connect.
+                initialized = true;
+                StartCoroutine(ExtractUserIdxAndConnect());
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                // Re-enabled after a disable: connections/settings are already built,
+                // so just re-open the sockets. The keepalive + queue processor restart
+                // themselves once the sockets reconnect (HandleSocketConnect).
+                Debug.Log("[WefLab] Re-enabled - reconnecting sockets");
+                ConnectAll();
+            }
+        }
+
+        void OnDisable()
+        {
+            // OnDestroy is NOT called on SetActive(false), so close the sockets here -
+            // otherwise the background WebSocket threads keep running while disabled.
+            Disconnect();
+
+            // Unity auto-stops this component's coroutines on disable. Reset the queue
+            // state they leave behind so processing restarts cleanly on re-enable
+            // (otherwise isProcessingQueue can stay true and stall the queue forever).
+            donationQueue.Clear();
+            queueCount = 0;
+            isProcessingQueue = false;
+            queueProcessorCoroutine = null;
+
+            // Drop any background-thread messages queued but not yet drained by Update(),
+            // so re-enabling doesn't flood Update() with stale alerts.
+            lock (actionLock)
+            {
+                mainThreadActions.Clear();
+            }
         }
 
         void Update()