Paranoia Firefox

Paranoia

By: GDR!
Check if your emails arrived TLS-encrypted (and which corporations were able to read it nevertheless)

Features & Capabilities

This extension shows two basic pieces of information in the incoming email header pane:

  • Was the connection encrypted at all the time when this message was sent between servers?
  • Which large corporations had a copy of this message and, theoretically, could read it?
There is an emoticon showing the state of encryption. Click on the emoticon and you'll see a list of connections which were made before this message arrived in your inbox, and state of encryption of each of them.
  • Yellow super-happy emoticon = connection encrypted at all times, and hasn't passed any known big corporations
  • Yellow happy emoticon = connection encrypted on the public Internet
  • Blue sad emoticon = 1 connection not encrypted
  • Red terrified emoticon = message sent more than 1 time unencrypted, on the public network (internet)
The symbols in the list of connections are as following:
  • ✓ - encrypted
  • ✗ - unencrypted
  • ⌂ - unencrypted, but in a local network
On the left of the emoticon, small icons of internet corporations are displayed. Hold your mouse over the logo to see the name of a corporation. The list is not very complete and you're welcome to contribute new entries on Github.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V2 Add-on
By:
GDR!
Daily users:
4
Rating:
4.25
(8)
Version:
0.3.0 Last updated: 2019-10-08
Version code:
4874908
Creation date:
2013-07-02
Risk:
Very low risk impact Low risk likelihood
Size:
90.63KB
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-18
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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.
Developed by:
GDR!
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/paranoia/
Website:
https://github.com/gjedeer/paranoia/issues

Is Paranoia Safe?

Risk impact
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Paranoia does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Low This permission has no access or impact on the user's system or data, thus carrying no risk.
Risk likelihood
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Paranoia has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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