# Ambient Background Extractor

> Extracts the page's dominant color and applies it as a lightweight theme accent for the browser toolbar.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/ambient-background-extractor](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ambient-background-extractor)

## Overview

- **ID:** `ambient-background-extractor`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tim
- **Category:** other
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-07
- **First published:** 2025-09-04
- **Size:** 12 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ambient-background-extractor/)

## Description

Ambient Background Extractor: Automatically get the main color of a website to fill the background of the Firefox tab bar or frame.

## Rankings

- #144,547 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `<all_urls>`
- `tabs`
- `theme`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ambient-background-extractor)