Is Speed Dial New tab safe?
Speed Dial New Tab sends the hostname of every bookmark tile shown on its dashboard to third-party favicone.com to fetch favicons.
Every speed-dial shortcut on the new-tab dashboard is built from the browser's bookmarks, and the tile's favicon is loaded from favicone.com using the site's hostname rather than the browser's own favicon cache, so favicone.com sees which sites the user has bookmarked. If the user grants the optional 'sessions' permission to enable the Recently Closed panel, the hostnames of up to 25 recently closed tabs are sent to favicone.com the same way.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itInitial condition s.r.o. - 2 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
Initial condition s.r.o. - 2 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
2 other listings published from this account, 380k+ users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.
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.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.8.9. 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> and 1 more
Read the sites you visit most
topSites
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Store data in your browser
storage
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Speed Dial 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.
- favicone.com
Speed Dial sends data to favicone.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.