# Contextual Image Describer

> Describe any image on a page using on-device heuristics: alt text, filename, surrounding text, and color palette.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/contextual-image-describer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/contextual-image-describer)

## Overview

- **ID:** `contextual-image-describer`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Abdul
- **Category:** photos-music-videos
- **Rating:** 3.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-12
- **First published:** 2025-09-09
- **Size:** 17 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/contextual-image-describer/)

## Description

Contextual Image Describer lets you click any image and instantly generate a clean, human-readable description. It works fully on-device: reads alt/title/ARIA text, looks at nearby captions and surrounding content, extracts filename keywords, and estimates dominant colors to enrich the caption. No cloud calls, no tracking.

## Rankings

- #131,266 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `tabs`
- `contextMenus`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High 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/contextual-image-describer)