Broad permissions including clipboard access go unexplained
The add-on requests broad permissions, including clipboard read and write and access to all site data, with no clear reason given for each one.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
13 public reports · first reported 14 October 2018 · last reported 18 July 2025
What's going wrong
Firefox users of the Flagfox browser add-on keep asking why it needs to read and write the clipboard, access all website data, and see their browser tabs, when its job is only showing a site's server location.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 13 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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