5 articles, every claim sourced
Every extension claims to respect your privacy. The claim is worth nothing on its own; what is worth something is that a false privacy declaration in a browser store is a policy violation with a consequence attached.
START HEREBrowser Extensions That Keep Your Data On Your Machine- the permission list and privacy declaration are checkable in about a minute once you know what to look at.
A declaration is not an audit. But it is a commitment the developer made to the store, and checking it beats trusting a marketing page.
Both take a snapshot of every open window so a crash cannot cost you your tabs. Session Buddy is a polished, Chrome-only, closed app with a million users. Tab Session Manager is open source, runs on Firefox and Edge too, lets you set the auto-save interval, and can sync through your own Google Drive. Compared on storage, automation, what you can read, and how each one came through the Manifest V3 cutover.
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Manifest V3 is three changes, not a hundred. Background pages became service workers that sleep after thirty seconds. The blocking network API became a rules list with a fixed ceiling, which is why the full uBlock Origin no longer runs on Chrome. And extensions can no longer load code from the web. Here is which of your extensions each change touches, and what Firefox, Brave and Edge decided to do instead.
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Chrome shows you warnings, not permissions, and the two are different lists. More than forty permissions produce no line at all, one permission can hide another's line entirely, and the most alarming sentence in the box usually comes from the most ordinary thing an extension can ask for. Including our own extension's list, where eight of the thirteen permissions never reach the box.
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Six tab managers compared on what actually matters: where your data lives, whether an account is required, how you get your tabs back out, and who each one suits. Including where OneTab is still the right answer.
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How to tell whether an extension actually stores your data locally, which permissions deserve a second look, and what the store listings do and do not tell you.
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