# Hermitation

> First Party Isolation extension for Firefox.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hermitation`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** varjolintu
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Version:** 0.2resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-26
- **First published:** 2019-03-04
- **Size:** 14 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hermitation/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/varjolintu/hermitation](https://github.com/varjolintu/hermitation)

## Description

Hermitation is a First Party Isolation extension for Firefox. It allows users to enable or disable First Party Isolation on the fly and provides options for remembering the previous state. It also includes experimental domain whitelisting feature.

## Rankings

- #137,872 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `privacy`
- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `webNavigation`

## 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/hermitation)