# Flow Intercepter

> Download intercepter for Flow

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/flow-intercepter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/flow-intercepter)

## Overview

- **ID:** `flow-intercepter`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Mehdi ESSALEHI
- **Category:** download-management
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2022-04-23
- **First published:** 2022-04-22
- **Size:** 8.79 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/flow-intercepter/)
- **Website:** [https://gitlab.com/essmehdi/flow](https://gitlab.com/essmehdi/flow)

## Description

Flow Intercepter is the official Firefox extension for Flow, a download manager for GNOME. It redirects all your downloads to the download manager to enhance your downloading experience and organization.

## Rankings

- #145,186 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `downloads`
- `nativeMessaging`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `storage`
- `cookies`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## 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/flow-intercepter)