# Idle Scroll Pause

> Automatically pause scroll tracking when inactive.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/idle-scroll-pause](https://chrome-stats.com/d/idle-scroll-pause)

## Overview

- **ID:** `idle-scroll-pause`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ali Rivas
- **Category:** appearance
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-29
- **First published:** 2025-09-26
- **Size:** 12 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/idle-scroll-pause/)

## Description

This extension detects when you’re idle and temporarily pauses all scroll tracking statistics, ensuring more accurate results and better time estimation.

## Rankings

- #132,020 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `scripting`
- `tabs`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## 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/idle-scroll-pause)