# Drive By Editor

> A Firefox extension that's intended to make it easier for people to make/send corrections to Light Novel translators.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/drive-by-editor](https://chrome-stats.com/d/drive-by-editor)

## Overview

- **ID:** `drive-by-editor`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** dteviot
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Version:** 0.1.0.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-07-06
- **Size:** 11 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/drive-by-editor/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/dteviot/DriveByEditor/issues](https://github.com/dteviot/DriveByEditor/issues)

## Description

Drive By Editor is a Firefox extension that allows users to mark up errors directly on web pages and send corrections to Light Novel translators.

## Rankings

- #57,933 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `clipboardWrite`

### 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/drive-by-editor)