Is headlinr-news safe?

Clean risk

This extension focuses Firefox search on news and current-events results.

It helps users find headlines, breaking stories, and journalism-related content more quickly by narrowing searches toward news. Installing it also sets the Firefox default search provider to Yahoo. The extension requests storage and tabs permissions.

Firearc Technologies LTDFirefox Add-ons
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Who publishes it

Firearc Technologies LTD - no other listings under this identity

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
Firearc Technologies LTD

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed headlinr-news 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.

  • Yahoowidely used

    headlinr-news sends data to Yahoo. Named as a recipient by 42 other extensions we have analysed.

Updated 15 October 2026amo-2955553