Is External Application Button (WebExtension) safe?

Clean risk

Adds toolbar and context-menu actions that send pages, text, images, or download links to external applications.

This extension lets you create customizable toolbar buttons and Firefox context-menu items for opening browser content in other programs. It can pass the current page, selected text, image URLs, or download links to applications you configure, and it requires a manually installed native client to work.

Andy PortmenFirefox Add-ons
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Who publishes it

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed External Application Button (WebExtension) 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.

  • manually installed native client

    External Application Button (WebExtension) sends data to manually installed native client. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.

  • user-configured external applications

    External Application Button (WebExtension) sends data to user-configured external applications. Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.

Updated 15 October 2026amo-764556