Privacy

Error reports (off by default)

PowerBrowser sends an error report only if you turn error reporting on. Error reporting is off until you choose to enable it. When it is on, each report carries exactly these seven fields:

• type: the kind of error.
• basename: the file name of the code that raised the error, without its folder.
• line and column: the position of the error in that file.
• version: the PowerBrowser version.
• buildID: the build identifier of this installation.
• OS: the operating system family, one of windows, macos, linux or unknown.

A report never includes the error message or the stack trace.

Retention

Error reports are kept for 30 days.

Who processes reports

Cloudflare is the only processor of error reports. No other company receives them.

Hosts the browser may contact without your action

PowerBrowser may contact these hosts without a click or any other action from you:

• firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com, content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net, firefox-settings-attachments.cdn.mozilla.net: Remote Settings, which supplies filter lists, certificate revocation data and other configuration.
• safebrowsing.google.com, safebrowsing.googleapis.com: Google Safe Browsing, which checks pages against known malicious sites.
• updates.powerbrowser.org: checks for PowerBrowser updates.
• downloads.powerbrowser.org: downloads update files.
• update.googleapis.com, www.google.com, dl.google.com, edgedl.me.gvt1.com: the Widevine content decryption module, which is checked for updates and downloaded when needed for protected media.
• versioncheck-bg.addons.mozilla.org: the periodic update check for add-ons you installed from addons.mozilla.org, and only once you have installed one.
• events.powerbrowser.org: receives error reports, and only while you have error reporting turned on. Each report carries only the fields listed above.

Hosts contacted only after you use a feature

These hosts are contacted only when you use the feature that needs them:

• api.anthropic.com: the AI chat feature, after you add an Anthropic API key and send a request.
• api.openai.com: the AI chat feature, after you add an OpenAI API key and send a request.
• open-vsx.org and openvsx.eclipsecontent.org: the extension catalogue, when you search for, install or update an extension.
• addons.mozilla.org: the add-ons site, when you open it from the extensions menu or install an add-on from it.
• versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org: the update check for an add-on installed from addons.mozilla.org, when you ask for one.
• lite.duckduckgo.com, ac.duckduckgo.com and en.wikipedia.org: the built-in search engines, when you search from the address bar or, with search suggestions on, type a search there.

The browser also talks to a service on this computer. That traffic does not leave the machine.

Contact

Privacy questions: [email protected]

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