Five Potentially Dangerous Browser Extension Permissions To Understand1. Access To All Site Data: Basically, when an extension has this permission, it can read, modify and transmit your browsing activity without your consent other than letting you know it is requesting this permission during installation.
2. Read And Modify Browser Settings 1. Browser Settings Permission: This allows an extension to read and adjust browser settings such as home page, search engine and new tab page.
3. Browsing Data Permission: 4. Proxy Permission:
2. Privacy Permission: With access to privacy settings, extensions can enable or disable features like tracking protection, cookies or other security-related settings that control data privacy.
5. Content Settings Permission:
3. Enable Keystroke Logging
4. Enable Access To Clipboard
5. Enable Desktop Access And Capture - https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2024/12/05/five-potentially-dangerous-browser-extension-permissions-to-understand/ :
News has been making headlines over the weekend of the extensive attack campaign targeting browser extensions and injecting them with malicious code to steal user credentials. Currently, over 25 extensions, with an install base of over two million users, have been found to be compromised, - https://thehackernews.com/2024/12/when-good-extensions-go-bad-takeaways.html
Public Extensions in the Chrome Store are Exposed. It appears that extensions were compromised as a result of a phishing campaign targeting the publishers of browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store. The details on who to target were apparently collected from the Web Store itself, which includes details of the extension author, including their email address. While the Chrome Web Store is the best-known source for extensions, it is not the only one, and some enterprise-grade extensions are deployed directly.
I run many installations of Firefox Portable (from a SSD partition), each for its own general purpose, and I recently installed Gecko-based FloorpFloorp to the mix. All 7 running concurrently. I added key Firefox extensions to Floorp, and it is a good addition which I overall find to be is a better than it’s nearest Chromium-based competition, Vivaldi, which i find far better for me than Chrome and Edge (which is presently last for me).
Especially if one opens a lot tabs and to be able to obtain multiple tab rows, as with Vivaldi (hack).(Without the latter I would be not be using either Firefox Quantum nor Vivaldi as main browsers, and maybe would use Firefox ESR 52.9 (the last version legacy extensions worked on) or Waterfox Classic for forums, if not aside from commerce.)
I found that Firefox extensions work in Floorp, as does the Izheil Multi-row tabs (which was before I read that this is enabled in Floorp itself, [paste about:preferences#design in the address bar] and other functions installer (though it protests against a non-standard profile).
Of course, there are a few developer preferences that require about:config to "fix," such as always opening search results (from address or search bar) in new tab and open new ones at the end of the tab bar.
I am 72 with stiff arthritic typo-fingers and appreciate such tools, and I thank God for them and those who provide them.