Detect when your extensions have changed owners
Intermittenty checks your installed extensions to see if the developer information listed on the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Addons store has changed. If anything is different, the extension icon will display a red badge, alerting you to the change.
Created by Matt Frisbie
Media:
- Hacker News discussion
- Featured in tl;dr sec Newsletter
- Featured in The Register
- Featured on Security Now ep 965
- Featured on LifeHacker
Extension developers are constantly getting offers to buy their extensions. In nearly every case, the people buying these extensions want to rip off the existing users.
The users of these extensions have no idea an installed extension has changed hands, and may now be compromised.
Under New Management gives users notice of the change of ownership, giving them a chance to make an informed decision about the software they're using.
Install for Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/under-new-management/jppepdecgemgbgnjnnfjcmanlleioikj
Install for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/under-new-management-v2/
OR
Download a prebuilt release, unpack the .zip file, and load the dist directory into your browser.
Under New Management uses Plasmo
pnpm install to install dependencies
pnpm dev to run locally
pnpm build --zip to build a release
pnpm build --target=firefox-mv3 to build for Firefox
Browsers have special rules about modifying extension marketplace domains. For example, you cannot set declarative_net_request rules for chromewebstore.google.com. Therefore, this extension delegates the developer info checking to the ExBoost API server.