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Permissions

Salar K edited this page Feb 12, 2020 · 2 revisions

Permissions Explained

Permission Usage reason
<all_urls> Proxy should work across the browser no matter the domain
activeTab Required to track url change of tabs and display proxy state of the tabs in toolbar
tabs Required to get access tab url and suggest proxy for its domain or failed requests
proxy Required in order to apply proxy to outgoing requests
webRequest To gain access to outgoing requests
webRequestBlocking Required in order to pause the request until proxy state is decided. Don't worry it is in matter of milliseconds.
storage To store settings
unlimitedStorage To store big chunk of servers subscriptions and rules subscriptions that can contains thousands of rules and servers, a relatively big storage is required
notifications Used to display a notification about the addon state change when a shortcut is used