> This really smells fishy, because a browser extension bypasses any browser security one may have, and has access to one's entire computer. IIRC that one is no longer true since the advent of sandboxing (and the end of native-code extensions via NPAPI and friends), all permissions have to be granted by the user explicitly. > What valid reasoning could there be to justify a browser extension for this purpose? Given t…
This is correct! :) Also, the extension's source code is not obfuscated so it's possible to download, extract, and go through the readable code.
If anyone's keen, just Google or Bing search to see how to do so (or lmk!). We haven't officially open-sourced as of now as the code still needs cleaning up, refactoring, etc :)