Why does this extension need permission to read our browsing history?

[aviv1620]

In the chrome extension settings the browser says it.

Note

Issue was opened on this: #147

[baruchiro]

A quick research gave me this information:

The tabs permission will add a warning of Read your browsing history, that's because I can listen to chrome.tabs.onUpdate and record the active browser history, from now on.

I see the best practice is to use activeTab, we should check if we can use it instead of tabs.

Links:

overlay/src/manifest.chrome.json

Line 40 in bda5fc7

"permissions": ["storage", "tabs"],

Chrome extension tabs permissions shows "Read your browsing history"
The tabs warning
Use the activeTab permission