ProtonMail Launcher by PyroDonkey

4.5 Stars out of 5

1 review

Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 13423357, 2 days ago
Basically just a simple bookmark to Proton Mail. However, be aware that this extension requests permission to access your data on mail.proton.me. This could potentially allow access to your emails and data you enter on the site, including login credentials. The permission seems unnecessary for such a simple launcher, so please be careful.
Developer response
posted an hour ago
Thanks for the review. To clarify: the extension doesn't request mail.proton.me access when you install it. The only install-time permission is contextMenus. The mail.proton.me permission is optional. Firefox prompts for it the first time you click the toolbar icon, and if you decline, the extension just opens a new tab each time.

It asks because of one feature: if Proton Mail is already open in a tab, the launcher switches to that tab instead of opening a duplicate tab. Firefox's tabs.query API requires host access for the URL being matched, so there's no way to detect an existing tab without it. The permission isn't used for anything else. There are no content scripts and no code that reads page content, and the full source is reviewable on GitHub (github.com/PyroDonkey/ProtonMail-Launcher).