# FreshRSS Watcher

> Be notified of unread articles in your FreshRSS instance

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/freshrss-watcher](https://chrome-stats.com/d/freshrss-watcher)

## Overview

- **ID:** `freshrss-watcher`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Firefox user 13720423
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 24
- **Rating:** 4.67 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.3resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2018-01-24
- **Size:** 19 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/freshrss-watcher/)
- **Website:** [https://framagit.org/dohseven/freshrss-watcher](https://framagit.org/dohseven/freshrss-watcher)

## Description

FreshRSS Watcher is a Firefox add-on that allows you to stay updated on unread articles in your FreshRSS instance. It provides notifications to ensure you never miss out on important content.

## Rankings

- #22,390 — Overall
- #152 — refresh
- #161 — match
- #171 — watch
- #193 — french

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `tabs`
- `alarms`
- `storage`
- `notifications`
- `sessions`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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/freshrss-watcher)