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Raymond Hill edited this page Sep 25, 2013 · 24 revisions

HTTP Switchboard requires the following permissions to work properly:

"permissions": [
    "contentSettings",
    "cookies",
    "storage",
    "tabs",
    "webNavigation",
    "webRequest",
    "webRequestBlocking",
    "<all_urls>"
],
  • contentSettings: to enable/disable javascript for a web page.
  • cookies: to allow the removal of blocked cookies.
  • storage: to store your own whitelist/blacklist domains/objects.
  • tabs: to enable forcing a reload of the content of a tab (when the content of the whitelist/blacklist change), and to enable injecting code into a page which reports whether at least one <script> tag is used on the page.
  • webNavigation: to allow redirecting the URL of a blocked page or frame to a dummy page.
  • webRequest: to allow intercepting all requests in order to inspect them.
  • webRequestBlocking: to be able to block a request if the object of the request is blacklisted.
  • <all_urls>: to be able to inspect traffic for all URLs.

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