Is Calibre Search safe?
Calibre Search sends selected page text to a local Calibre native messaging host when you start a search.
When you use the context menu, toolbar button, or keyboard shortcut, Calibre Search reads the current selection, selected input text, or link text from HTTP(S) pages. It builds a calibre:// search URL from that text and sends it to the local native messaging host configured for Calibre search.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Calibre Search contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- com.kiwidude.calibre_search
Calibre Search sends data to com.kiwidude.calibre_search. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.