# Random GitHub Notification

> Firefox add-on which adds a toolbar button to open a random GitHub notification of yours! Very useful to catch up and work through notifications – with the excitement of randomness. Part of the Keep or Sweep ecosystem.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/random-github-notification](https://chrome-stats.com/d/random-github-notification)

## Overview

- **ID:** `random-github-notification`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jan C. Borchardt
- **Category:** web-development,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-07-17
- **First published:** 2025-07-14
- **Size:** 23 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/random-github-notification/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/keeporsweep/random-github-notification/issues](https://github.com/keeporsweep/random-github-notification/issues)

## Rankings

- #128,631 — Overall
- #81 — notification

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `https://github.com/*`

## 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/random-github-notification)