New tab add-on asks for excessive data permissions
The add-on requests broad permissions, including browsing history and all site data, that users find unnecessary for a homepage.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 22 June 2019 · last reported 20 August 2025
What's going wrong
Several Firefox users say this new tab add-on asks for far more access than a homepage needs, including the ability to read browsing history and data across sites.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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- Related problems.
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