Is Max HacKBar safe?

Clean risk

Provides a WebExtension-based HackBar tool accessible from the browser developer tools.

This extension offers an alternative to the original XUL Hackbar and is opened by pressing F12. Its permissions allow it to work with tabs, the active tab, web requests, all URLs, and developer tools. The store description says it accesses ipinfo.io to obtain the user's public IP address.

0Risk

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Max HacKBar 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.

  • ipinfo.iowidely used

    Max HacKBar sends data to ipinfo.io. A widely used service: 49 other extensions we have analysed send data here.

Updated 15 October 2026amo-2717093