Improve your privacy while visiting unknown links or to open *.onion domains in the Tor browser

Latest Version

Version
0.2.1
Update
October 15, 2023
Size
207KiB
Developer
Category
Users
1,000+
Rating
1 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Storage
ActiveTab
ContextMenus
NativeMessaging
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Open in Onion Browser Extension

Features:
1. Open links in the Tor browser
2. Open the current page in the Tor browser
3. Automatically detects the Tor browser and optionally allows the user to configure the path
4. Supports custom keyboard shortcut to open links with left-click and keyboard shortcut combination

Use Cases:
1. It can be used to improve the user privacy by sending unknown links to the Tor browser
2. It can be used to open \"*.onion\" links/

How does it work?
This extension needs a native client to pass the links to the Tor browser. You need to install this native client on the first use. Currently, the native client is only supporting Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.

Privacy & Policy:
1. This extension has no relation to the Tor browser. It is an independent project that only sends links to this browser
2. This extension works offline. No data is sent or received from any servers.
3. The only purpose of this extension is to ease the Tor browser's access without the need to copy and paste links between the browsers.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Open in Onion Browser", "description": "Improve your privacy while visiting unknown links or to open *.onion domains in the Tor browser", "version": "0.2.1", "permissions": [ "storage", "activeTab", "contextMenus", "nativeMessaging" ], "optional_permissions": [ "downloads" ], "background": { "service_worker": "worker.js" }, "homepage_url": "https://webextension.org/listing/open-in.html?from=tor", "icons": { "16": "/data/icons/16.png", "32": "/data/icons/32.png", "48": "/data/icons/48.png", "64": "/data/icons/64.png", "128": "/data/icons/128.png", "256": "/data/icons/256.png", "512": "/data/icons/512.png" }, "action": {}, "content_scripts": [{ "matches": ["*://*/*"], "js": ["/data/inject/main.js"], "world": "MAIN", "run_at": "document_start", "all_frames": true }, { "matches": ["*://*/*"], "js": ["/data/inject/isolated.js"], "world": "ISOLATED", "run_at": "document_start", "all_frames": true }], "options_ui": { "page": "/data/options/index.html", "open_in_tab": true }, "commands": { "_execute_action": {} }}
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