# Open in Colab Button

> Add-on that adds a button, «Open in Colab», to the header of IPython notebook hosted in Gist and GitHub

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/open-in-colab-button](https://chrome-stats.com/d/open-in-colab-button)

## Overview

- **ID:** `open-in-colab-button`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Francesco De Stefano
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 9
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2020-09-18
- **First published:** 2020-09-17
- **Size:** 20 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/open-in-colab-button/)
- **Website:** [https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-in-colab/](https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-in-colab/)

## Description

Open in Colab Button is a Firefox add-on that allows you to quickly import Jupyter Notebooks from Gist and GitHub to Google Colab. It adds a convenient button to the notebook header for easy access.

## Rankings

- #35,450 — Overall
- #105 — notebook

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## 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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