Is Minimalist Tab safe?

Medium risk

Minimalist Tab routes browser and new-tab search queries through ad-block-pro.co and track.clickcrystal.com.

Minimalist Tab sets the browser's default search provider to send omnibox searches to ad-block-pro.co with the search terms in the request. Its new-tab search form also submits typed queries to track.clickcrystal.com along with an affiliate channel identifier.

Solairev1.1.10Chrome Web Store
49Risk
Who publishes it

Solaire - 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
Solaire
Website
ad-block-pro.co/contact-us/

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

Publishers can request a review.

Findings

New tab searches go to ClickCrystal with affiliate channel id

When you submit a search from Minimalist Tab's new tab page, the query is sent to track.clickcrystal.com.

The request also includes an affiliate channel id, tying the search submission to the extension's configured channel.

Severity
Medium unwanted
Type
Unexpected
CWE
CWE-359
Source
Dynamic sandbox
What actually happens
You did this

The user submits a search from the new tab page.

The extension did this

The extension sends the query to track.clickcrystal.com with an affiliate channel id.

Captured request
GETtrack.clickcrystal.com/955d3a6f-a6d5-44ef-8879-ec792003a1e5
Fields in the request
  • Search query
    weather tomorrow (illustrative)

    The text you entered in the new tab search box is included in the form submission.

Default searches are sent to ad-block-pro.co

When you search from the address bar, Minimalist Tab routes searches through ad-block-pro.co/rdr.html.

The request includes what you typed as the keyword parameter, per the confirmed search-provider override.

Severity
Medium unwanted
Type
Unexpected
CWE
CWE-359
Source
Dynamic sandbox
What actually happens
You did this

A user performs an action that invokes the browser's default search provider.

The extension did this

Minimalist Tab configures Chrome to send default search queries to ad-block-pro.co with the user's search terms in the keyword parameter.

Captured request
GEThttps://ad-block-pro.co/rdr.html?keyword={searchTerms}
Fields in the request
  • Your search terms
    weather tomorrow (illustrative)

    The words typed into the browser's default search box are sent as the keyword value.

What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.10. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Minimalist Tab 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.

  • ad-block-pro.co

    Minimalist Tab sends data to ad-block-pro.co. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

  • track.clickcrystal.com

    Minimalist Tab sends data to track.clickcrystal.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026khheojkcinlbbgjedicdehfbcpbfolok