Is Search Engines Helper safe?
Search Engines Helper sends user-created search engine definitions to http-request-echo-server.onrender.com.
When you add or import a search engine, the extension converts the engine name, search URL, suggestion URL, and image URL into an OpenSearch XML file. Firefox then retrieves that encoded search definition from http-request-echo-server.onrender.com so the search provider can be added.
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Findings
Search engine definitions are sent to a third-party echo service
Adding or importing a search engine makes Search Engines Helper build an OpenSearch XML definition.
That definition, including the search URL, is loaded through http-request-echo-server.onrender.com so Firefox can retrieve it as a provider.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
You add or import a search engine definition.
The extension encodes the OpenSearch XML definition and loads it through http-request-echo-server.onrender.com.
- Your search URLhttps://example.com/search?q=%s (illustrative)
This identifies the search endpoint you configured for the custom search engine.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.5.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Search Engines Helper 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.
- http-request-echo-server.onrender.com
Search Engines Helper sends data to http-request-echo-server.onrender.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.