#browseraddons — Public Fediverse posts

Geeks Are Sexy: Cat Gatekeeper: This Chrome Extension Sends a Cat to End Your Doomscrolling . “Here’s how it works: you set your scrolling limit and your forced break, and when the timer runs out, BOOM, a giant and very fat cat appears on your screen and refuses to move. You are now legally required to stare at the cat until the ‘forced break’ timer runs out.”

Lifehacker: These 108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Google and Telegram Data. “As reported by The Hacker News, cybersecurity researchers with Socket’s Threat Research Team have identified 108 extensions available in Google Chrome that steal login credentials, user IDs, and browsing data. All 108 extensions route that information back to servers controlled by a single operator, […]

Lifehacker: These 108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Google and Telegram Data. “As reported by The Hacker News, cybersecurity researchers with Socket’s Threat Research Team have identified 108 extensions available in Google Chrome that steal login credentials, user IDs, and browsing data. All 108 extensions route that information back to servers controlled by a single operator, […]

Lifehacker: These 108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Google and Telegram Data. “As reported by The Hacker News, cybersecurity researchers with Socket’s Threat Research Team have identified 108 extensions available in Google Chrome that steal login credentials, user IDs, and browsing data. All 108 extensions route that information back to servers controlled by a single operator, […]

The Register: Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts. “Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the data is anonymized and obtained with consent.”

ZDNet: The permissions behind your AI Chrome extensions deserve a closer look – they may be spying on you. “New research from data removal service Incogni finds that more than half of a sample set of AI Chrome extensions collect user data. Almost a third are ‘gathering personally identifiable information (PII).'”

MakeUseOf: This browser extension gets rid of every cookie pop-up on every site. “There’s a lot of malicious intent and security vulnerabilities that can come from sharing the wrong kinds of cookies. That’s why I use Consent-O-Matic, a browser extension that eliminates me having to deal with any cookie pop-ups that I don’t want to.”

Lifehacker: If You’ve Installed Any of These 17 Browser Extensions, Delete Them Now. “Threat actors planted malicious JavaScript code in the extension’s PNG logo, which served as a malware loader to retrieve the main payload from a remote server. Researchers at LayerX have found an additional 17 malicious extensions across multiple browsers that have collectively been installed more than […]

Lifehacker: These Popular Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Your AI Chats. “Hackers continue to find ways to sneak malicious extensions into the Chrome web store—this time, the two offenders are impersonating an add-on that allows users to have conversations with ChatGPT and DeepSeek while on other websites and exfiltrating the data to threat actors’ servers.”

MakeUseOf: These YouTube add-ons make watching long videos actually enjoyable. “The good news is that you are not stuck with YouTube in its default, chaotic form. With a carefully chosen set of browser extensions, you can peel away the noise and restore YouTube to what it was supposed to be: a focused space for entertainment and learning.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/11/makeuseof-these-youtube-add-ons-make-watching-long-videos-actually-enjoyable/

The Register: Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware. “A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people’s data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the extensions with more than […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/02/the-register-stealthy-browser-extensions-waited-years-before-infecting-4-3m-chrome-edge-users-with-backdoors-and-spyware/

MakeUseOf: This browser extension keeps every idea I highlight instantly searchable. “This Chrome extension lets you highlight text on any webpage and keeps all your highlights searchable and organized in one place. No more lost bookmarks. No more hunting through history. Everything you highlight becomes instantly findable. You can tag highlights, add notes, and search across your entire […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/03/makeuseof-this-browser-extension-keeps-every-idea-i-highlight-instantly-searchable/

Mozilla: Introducing the Firefox Extension Developer Awards Program. “Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program designed to recognize and celebrate the developers who have made an outstanding impact on our ecosystem: the Firefox Extension Developer Awards Program!”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/16/mozilla-introducing-the-firefox-extension-developer-awards-program/

MakeUseOf: These 7 Browser Extensions Will Make Your School Year So Much Easier. “School can feel overwhelming without the right tools. If you do a lot of research and writing, having the right browser extensions will help you stay organized, focused, and make your school year run a lot smoother.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/12/makeuseof-these-7-browser-extensions-will-make-your-school-year-so-much-easier/

How-To Geek: I Refuse to Surf the Web Without These Essential Web Extensions. “Have you noticed how cluttered and obnoxious the web is at times? For example, cookie banners and blinding white themes are a constant barrage of annoyance and distraction. Thankfully, modern web extensions solve many of those problems, but there are a few essentials that I can’t live without.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/07/how-to-geek-i-refuse-to-surf-the-web-without-these-essential-web-extensions/

MakeUseOf: Your Inbox Is Full of Trackers: These 4 Extensions Block Them All. “Did you know that most of the emails you receive have a sneaky, secret tracking pixel designed to snoop on you? Whether spam, marketing, or otherwise, these tracking pixels can send information back to the send—unless you install one of these handy tracker pixel blocking extensions.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/your-inbox-is-full-of-trackers-these-4-extensions-block-them-all-makeuseof/

Spotted on Calishat Snaps: RSS Launchpad Extension. This is a GitHub page. From that page: “RSS Launchpad is a minimalist extension for Firefox and Firefox mobile (and should be compatible with other browsers that support the Web Extensions format). It provides a list of RSS/Atom feeds defined by websites as alternative sources in the document.” This extension is also available at the AddOns […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/12/rss-launchpad-extension/

Honestly struggling with #Chrome's Manifest V3 limitations regarding its background script. Can't get any long-lived processes working, and managing hydration of states during suspension and wake up is troublesome as #serviceworkers don't fire events for this.

I'm honestly afraid that I'll just have to fall back and get the browser extension to rely on the desktop app.. And this really defeats all the strides @buttercup has made with its browser extension being its own application. Don't want to do it but I'm seeing no other *reliable* way.

Anyone else out there building #browserextensions hitting this road block? Would really appreciate any words of encouragement or suggestions as to what to do here..

#browserextension #browseraddon #browseraddons #firefox #manifestv3