Reviews for All Tabs Helper
All Tabs Helper by Kevin Jones
Review by Firefoss
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefoss, 5 years agoIt works great BUT...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/permission-request-messages-firefox-extensions#w_access-your-data-for-all-websites
The extension can read the content of any web page you visit as well as data you enter into those web pages, such as usernames and passwords.
EDIT:
Thank you very much for the reply.
That permission is scary, and for good reason.
I am not able to understand the source code, which would require much time on every update, anyway.
Without that permission, it would be perfect.
Even if that should require to remove some features.
Anyway, you made an open source addon which works great.
And you read the feedback.
Therefore I give you my compliments and raise the score to four stars.
I am sorry for myself, because I won't be using such a useful addon.
Thank you very much for your work :)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/permission-request-messages-firefox-extensions#w_access-your-data-for-all-websites
The extension can read the content of any web page you visit as well as data you enter into those web pages, such as usernames and passwords.
EDIT:
Thank you very much for the reply.
That permission is scary, and for good reason.
I am not able to understand the source code, which would require much time on every update, anyway.
Without that permission, it would be perfect.
Even if that should require to remove some features.
Anyway, you made an open source addon which works great.
And you read the feedback.
Therefore I give you my compliments and raise the score to four stars.
I am sorry for myself, because I won't be using such a useful addon.
Thank you very much for your work :)
Developer response
posted 5 years agoYes, the user is notified of that upon installation and has the choice to install or not install. The addon page explains the reason for this permission.
So why the vindictive rating then?
The particular permission to which you refer, "read the content of any web page" is needed in order to search tabs content in the "Search all tabs" feature.
For the record, ATH does not modify any part of any page for spoofing, nor scavenge any user input, in order learn any user information, including but not limited to passwords etc.
So why the vindictive rating then?
The particular permission to which you refer, "read the content of any web page" is needed in order to search tabs content in the "Search all tabs" feature.
For the record, ATH does not modify any part of any page for spoofing, nor scavenge any user input, in order learn any user information, including but not limited to passwords etc.