# Activity detection for Adaptive screen saver

> Detects HTML5 video playback for Adaptive screen saver on Linux.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/screensaver-adaptive](https://chrome-stats.com/d/screensaver-adaptive)

## Overview

- **ID:** `screensaver-adaptive`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Big-Endian
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 0.0.2resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2018-03-06
- **Size:** 29 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/screensaver-adaptive/)
- **Website:** [https://big-endian.nl/contact/](https://big-endian.nl/contact/)

## Description

Activity detection for Adaptive screen saver is a Firefox add-on that detects if a HTML5 video element is playing video on Linux. It communicates this activity to the Adaptive screen saver, which resets the session's idle time.

## Rankings

- #119,254 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### 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 website URL may be invalid

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/screensaver-adaptive)