Permission.md

TabSorter2 - Enhancing your browsing experience 1 click at a time

This page is to explain which permissions are used and why

{
  "permissions": [
    "tabs",
    "tabGroups",
    "storage",
    "system.display",
    "alarms"
  ],
  "optional_permissions": [
    "downloads"
  ],
  "host_permissions": [
    "https://publicsuffix.org/*"
  ]
}

Tabs:

• Usage: used to access the tabs' URL and title for sorting, saving, and some internal filtering
• Details: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs

TabGroups:

• Usage: used to support automatically creating a group for multiple tabs of the same domain
• Details: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs

Storage:

• Usage: used to access the storage used for saving/restoring the state of the extension
• Details: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/storage

System.display:

• Usage: used to access the screen dimensions, used to split and stack the windows
• Details: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/system_display

Alarms:

• Usage: used to implement an auto discard functionality checking if a tab has been opened for more than 45 minutes and discarding it from memory
• details: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/alarms

Downloads:

• Usage: Enables downloading of saved files from the browser.
• Details: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/downloads

Host_permissions:

• Usage: used to access the public suffix list, used internally for parsing tabs URL and determine the subdomain, domain, and tld (top-level domain... i.e: .com, .co.uk .org .ci)

• Details: When installing/updating the extension will download the public suffix list from https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat and store it. This list is used to parse the domain of a tab.

  basic use case:

  • If you open a tab with the url https://www.google.com/ the parser will return the domain google.com
  • however for like https://www.google.co.uk the parser will return co.uk as domain which is wrong. the public suffix list is used to correct that.