Is New Tab Tools safe?
New Tab Tools captures page thumbnails for saved tile URLs and stores them locally with the page URL.
New Tab Tools watches completed page loads and, when the URL is one of its saved new-tab tile URLs, captures the visible page into a thumbnail image. It skips incognito tabs and stores the thumbnail blob together with the page URL in the extension's local IndexedDB storage.
Who publishes itGeoff Lankow - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname
Geoff Lankow - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 1 hostname
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
Publishers can request a review.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 92.1. 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>
Detect when you step away from your computer
idle
Read and restore your recently closed tabs and windows
sessions
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation