# Developer Excuses

> Overrides your new tabs with a random developer excuse over a beautiful photo background

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/animated-developer-excuses](https://chrome-stats.com/d/animated-developer-excuses)

## Overview

- **ID:** `animated-developer-excuses`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Alan Tai
- **Category:** tabs
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2020-02-25
- **First published:** 2020-02-25
- **Size:** 616 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/animated-developer-excuses/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/ayltai/developer-excuses-webextension/issues](https://github.com/ayltai/developer-excuses-webextension/issues)

## Description

Developer Excuses is a Firefox add-on that overrides your new tabs with a random developer excuse over a beautiful photo background. It periodically refreshes the background image and quote, and animates the background with the Ken Burns effect.

## Rankings

- #133,277 — Overall
- #142 — developer tools
- #145 — developer

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `https://unsplash-api-proxy.appspot.com/*`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- 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/animated-developer-excuses)