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NumeriusNegidius / Context-Search

A Firefox WebExtension that displays a context menu, that searches for the selected text.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/context-search-we/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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New Firefox permission: Access your data for all websites #52

Closed qouoq closed 6 years ago

qouoq commented 6 years ago

About a week ago, Firefox informed me that the Context Search extension was requiring a new permission, namely "Access your data for all websites". I would like to ask, why is this new permission required?

NumeriusNegidius commented 6 years ago

It’s for enabling anchor text and image url search. Up until version 1.1 the extension could only search for selected text. To do that I had to add a content script and those require access to all websites to work on all websites.

This extension doesn’t modify anything in Firefox (except the addon’s settings). It just reads data and populate a menu.

The permissions thing is not very fine grained.

qouoq commented 6 years ago

Understood, thanks for the clear answer :)