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by LinuxBender 2322 days ago
Would it be feasible for browsers to have a console window that enumerates add-on's to display things like URL's contained in the code, what is stored in local storage, session storage, etc? Asking because this topic comes up a lot and might not if the browser had a way to show explicit detailed permissions and capabilities vs. high level abstract permissions. This would be for less than technical people that probably won't be viewing source code, but could click a shiny button in the add-on page and get some idea if the addon shows URL, http(s), number of times the addon has used GET or POST or other methods:

  URL: http://some.site.tld/    [ INSECURE GET:1 POST:2]
  URL: https://some.other.tld/  [ SECURE GET:3 POST:2 ]
Maybe in about:networking have a tab for logging / debugging all addons?