# MainWP Browser Extension

> Stay informed by monitoring available updates and non-MainWP changes to your WordPress sites. Connects to your MainWP Dashboard via REST API.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/mainwp-browser-extension](https://chrome-stats.com/d/mainwp-browser-extension)

## Overview

- **ID:** `mainwp-browser-extension`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** MainWP
- **Category:** web-development,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 49
- **Rating:** 2.11 / 5 (9 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-03-12
- **First published:** 2023-07-13
- **Size:** 81 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mainwp-browser-extension/)
- **Website:** [https://managers.mainwp.com/](https://managers.mainwp.com/)

## Description

The MainWP Browser Extension empowers WordPress site managers to stay updated effortlessly. It connects to your MainWP Dashboard through the REST API, enabling you to monitor available WordPress core, plugin, theme, and translation updates without logging into the dashboard. You can customize the update check interval from 15 minutes to once daily, ensuring timely notifications tailored to your preference.

Beyond monitoring updates, the extension tracks changes made to plugins and themes outside of the MainWP Dashboard. Featuring quick access links to relevant Dashboard pages, it streamlines maintenance actions. Compatible with all Chromium-based browsers, setup is simple by generating and inputting API keys via your MainWP Dashboard. This tool is ideal for developers and site managers seeking efficient multisite update management in a single glance.

## Rankings

- #16,246 — Overall
- #35 — browser extension
- #137 — wordpress
- #148 — browser
- #168 — browser tab
- #173 — dashboard

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `alarms`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `notifications`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `https://*/wp-json/mainwp/v1/sites/*`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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/mainwp-browser-extension)