Forum Alerts

Get alerts from your favorite communities (powered by XenForo).
What is Forum Alerts?
Forum Alerts is a Chrome extension that allows you to receive notifications for new alerts or personal conversations on any XenForo site you visit while logged in. It does not require your username, email, or password for the site, using only the page content to check for new alerts every few minutes.

Extension stats

Users: 187 ▼ -4
Rating: 4.11 (19)
Version: 1.0.2 (Last updated: 2013-10-28)
Creation date: 2013-10-28
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • http://*/
  • https://*/
  • activeTab
  • tabs
  • storage
  • alarms
  • notifications
Size: 41.59K

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Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

This extension allows you to be notified when you get a new alert or personal conversation on any XenForo site that you visit while logged in.

It does not require your username, email, or password for the site. The only data is uses is the page content. Every few minutes it checks each of the sites it picked up as using XenForo software for new alerts.

User reviews

Very nice, only if it dont just do it for every single site it suspected, as you might not want to watch all forum sites it would be nice if it dosent spam you of notification every so often
by T, 2017-11-06

Works great!
by hgbf, 2017-09-13

very good extension
by SkyEternalGamer, 2017-02-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Forum Alerts requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Forum Alerts has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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