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by nusl 891 days ago
I suggest you inspect the changelog and any available code for answers you’re looking for. Ensure you don’t have a malicious alternate version.

From the Firefox documentation:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/permission-request-mess...

The extension could listen for the steps the browser takes to navigate from a link to another page. The extension could then provide new features for the content on the page.

Extensions requesting this permission might:

Detect when streamed videos are about to play and provide a download feature Look for and prevent ad pop-ups from opening

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thanks.