Project Insight

How to Use: Click the Toolbar Icon or go into the Settings page to open, Project Insight.

Features:

• See what permissions are granted for each extension.
• See what URLs the extension can connect to and intercept.
• A user-friendly explanation of what each permission can do when you click on it.

What are Permissions? When you install any extensions from the extensions website, it will ask you to accept a list of permissions that that that extension is requesting. Extensions can only operate within the boundaries of those permissions. For example, if you give an extension the "Downloads" permission, it can download and save a file from the Internet on to your computer.

Well designed extensions should not request more permissions beyond what it absolutely needs to function. Poorly designed extensions request many permissions that it doesn't use.

What should I look out for? Ideally, before installing an extension you should review its list of permissions and if it looks suspicious, you should not install it, and opt for another extension with fewer permissions.