SECURITY REPORT · EXTENSHI SCAN

Ancestry Finder

Firefox extension·by Milburn
79
/ 100 SAFETY SCORE
CAUTION
Mostly fine, but a few things worth reviewing before you install.

Automated analysis of publicly available code — not a professional security audit. It may produce false positives and does not prove an extension is unsafe or safe. Treat it as one signal among many. Disclaimer · Report an issue

How it ranks

Ancestry Finder's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
35%of extensions carry more risk
This extension
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 397,149 extensions
In Other
13%of other extensions carry more risk
This extension
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 28,660 other extensions
Findings
100
median 3Lower is safer
Critical findings
0
median 0Severity = Critical
Permissions
65
median 3Declared in manifest
Active users
2
median 2vs category median

Findings breakdown

Automated security signal · 100 distinct issues across 6 severities
100
distinct issues
detected

Permissions requested

65 permissions declared
No risky permissions
65 permissions requested — none are flagged as risky.
Medium
Store local data

Can save data locally in the browser for persistence

Medium
Add context menu items

Can add custom items to the right-click context menu

Info
*://*.wikitree.com/*

No additional information available.

Info
*://*.ancestry.com/*

No additional information available.

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*://*.ancestry.co.uk/*

No additional information available.

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*://*.ancestry.ca/*

No additional information available.

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*://*.ancestry.com.au/*

No additional information available.

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*://*.ancestry.de/*

No additional information available.

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