Vimium: permissions ask for too much

[haroldcarr]

Is there a technical reason why this needs:

• Read and change all your data on the websites you visit
• Read and change your browsing history on all your signed-in devices

?

[mrmr1993]

• Read and change all your data on the websites you visit

We need access to every webpage you load so we can listen for keys on it, and to show the Vomnibar, HUD, and help dialog. The extension is useless without this.

• Read and change your browsing history on all your signed-in devices

This is used for showing history in the Vomnibar. We don't necessarily need this, but o and O are pretty useless without it.

[haroldcarr]

Thanks for the clarification.

[DanielGGordon]

Wait why do you guys need to MODIFY the data I copy and paste? That's a new one...

[philc]

@DanielGGordon see discussion in #3489.