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How do I get over the reluctance to grant an extension to "Access your data for all websites"? I would love to have some of these extensions but it feels like a
by collinvandyck76 5y ago
How do I get over the reluctance to grant an extension to "Access your data for all websites"? I would love to have some of these extensions but it feels like a huge security risk.
- input_sh 5y agoBy reading the feature set and realising that some of them cannot work without that permission. For example, you can't have a password manager, a CSS style injector, or an ad-blocker without that access. After taking a quick look at the add-on from the comment above, I bet it's the snapshots feature that requires it.
- kbenson 5y agoIf you really want an extension that requires that, and if it has a repo, you could vet the code a bit (it's JavaScript, so somewhat accessible), and load it as an extension from a file after packaging it up. Alternatively, you can install it, look in your profile dir until you find that extension, and look through all the code it's using, and turn off automatically update extensions in Firefox when you're happy you want to keep it. People can say what they will about the great extension convergence where Firefox switched to Chrome style extensions, but having everything just be JavaScript that you can easily review yourself is pretty nice.