Is Folx safe?
Folx reads cookies for any downloaded URL and forwards them to the local Folx download manager app via a custom URL scheme.
When a download is triggered — either through the browser's download manager or a right-click context menu action — the extension collects all cookies associated with the download URL using the broad cookies and <all_urls> permissions. These cookies are appended as a parameter in an openinfolx3:// URL and passed to the locally installed Folx application to authenticate the download.
Who publishes itElectronic Team Inc - no other listings under this identity
Electronic Team Inc - no other listings under this identity
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 5.37. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Folx 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.
- Folx (local macOS application via openinfolx3:// URL scheme)
Folx sends data to Folx (local macOS application via openinfolx3:// URL scheme). Named as a recipient in this extension's own analysis.