# Hunter: Find email addresses in seconds

> Find email addresses from anywhere on the web, with just one click.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hunterio`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Hunter
- **Category:** search-tools,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 5,790
- **Weekly downloads:** 91
- **Rating:** 4.16 / 5 (75 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.1.3
- **Last updated:** 2023-04-03
- **First published:** 2017-02-08
- **Size:** 1.97 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hunterio/)
- **Website:** [https://help.hunter.io/extensions-and-add-ons/firefox-add-on](https://help.hunter.io/extensions-and-add-ons/firefox-add-on)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hunterio/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hunterio/privacy/)

## Description

Hunter for Firefox is a powerful tool that helps you find the right contacts behind any website quickly. With just one click, you can access email addresses, names, job titles, phone numbers, and social network profiles sourced from public data. The Domain Search feature uncovers all relevant emails tied to a website, complete with verified statuses and confidence scores. If you know someone's name, the Email Finder returns their email instantly. Organize leads efficiently by saving contacts to lists, which can then be integrated with popular CRMs like Salesforce, Hubspot, and Zoho. Ideal for sales, marketing, recruiting, and various professionals, Hunter offers 50 free searches per month upon account creation. It's a trusted extension by over a million users seeking to streamline their outreach efforts.

## Rankings

- #1,064 — Overall
- #113 — Social & Communication
- #115 — Search Tools
- #2 — second-hand
- #8 — address
- #9 — polished emails

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `contextMenus`

### Host permissions

- `https://*.hunter.io/`

### Content script matches

- `*.hunter.io`
- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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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## Review summary

Users praise Hunter's Firefox extension as handy and powerful, especially for email outreach, with many noting it helps quickly locate addresses and target decision makers. The extension is seen as easy to use, and several reviews call it an amazing add-on. However, some users report onboarding friction due to invasive identity verification and authentication requests, which can deter adoption. Overall, the tool is valued for its usefulness in outreach, while verification hurdles are the main recurring downside across reviews.

### Pros

- Handy and powerful Firefox extension for finding email addresses
- Very useful for email outreach and identifying contacts
- Very positive reception; many reviewers call it amazing/add-on

### Cons

- Invasive identity verification and authentication steps (e.g., phone number and LinkedIn) that deter users

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hunterio)