mirror of https://github.com/josh-berry/tab-stash
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# Privacy Policy
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Tab Stash does not share any of your information with the developers, or with
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any third party, except as noted below.
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## Bookmarks and Firefox Sync
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Tab Stash uses bookmarks to store all your stashed tabs. Your bookmarks are
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synced using the Firefox Sync service (if configured), so your stashed tabs will
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appear on all computers linked to your Firefox Sync account.
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If you wish to stop using Tab Stash entirely, you can still retrieve your
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stashed tabs in the "Tab Stash" folder of your bookmarks.
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## Extension Permissions
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When you first install it, Tab Stash will ask for the following permissions.
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Here's why we need each of them:
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- **Access browser tabs**: Used to save and restore tabs to the stash.
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(Honestly, we'd all be surprised if an extension with a name like "Tab Stash"
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_didn't_ have this permission.)
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- **Access recently closed tabs**: When restoring a stashed tab, Tab Stash will
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look thru recently-closed tabs to see if any of them have matching URLs, and
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restore the closed tab rather than creating a new one. This will restore
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additional state for that tab, such as navigation history.
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- **Hide and show browser tabs**: Used to hide stashed tabs instead of closing
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them outright, so they can be restored more quickly later (and preserve useful
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tab state such as navigation history, or that half-written blog post about
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last night's dinner you were in the middle of when your boss walked by...).
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- **Read and modify bookmarks**: Used to create and delete bookmarks in the "Tab
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Stash" folder which represent your stashed tabs.
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- **Read and modify browser settings**: Read-only; used to determine the new-tab
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and Home pages, so Tab Stash can tell if you're looking at a new tab, and
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automatically close it if it's not needed. Tab Stash does not modify your
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browser settings. (Although, if we _did_, we'd probably change your homepage
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to be a picture of a kitten. Because who doesn't like kittens?)
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- **Store client-side data**: Tab Stash stores your preferences (such as whether
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to open the stash in the sidebar or a new tab) in the browser's local and
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synced storage.
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- **Store unlimited amount of client-side data**: Tab Stash keeps a cache of
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website icons on your local computer, so they do not have to be fetched from
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the Internet (which can be a very slow process, depending on the website). To
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accommodate users whose stashes may grow very large, we ask to store lots of
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data so the cache can hold all the icons. Icons are removed from the cache
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automatically once they're no longer needed.
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- **Containers (contextual identities)** and **Cookies**: If you use Firefox's
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containers feature, these permissions are used to identify which container
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each tab belongs to and show an indicator in the Tab Stash UI.
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- **Menus**: Used to provide additional options for Tab Stash in the right-click
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menu of a page and the tab bar.
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