Shift Guard

Name: Shift Guard
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Marcus Ulrich

By: Marcus Ulrich

Prevent accidental clicks on content that suddenly shifts or appears.

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Features & Capabilities

Shift Guard is a browser extension that helps prevent accidentally clicking the wrong thing when parts of a website suddenly shift or appear.

Our brains take time to process information. If something on a website appeared 0.1 seconds ago and you clicked on it, it's unlikely that's what you intended since your brain would still be busy processing the change.

Shift Guard works by logging various types of website changes and throwing out clicks on content that shifted or appeared within a configurable time span. If a click is incorrectly thrown out, a second click a moment later will work as usual. It's also easy to turn on and off, and double-clicks are never thrown out.

On the other hand, accidentally clicking something can be a costly mistake. If you're lucky, it just means waiting for the page to reload after going back. At worst it can mean a loss of unsaved work or an unintended purchase.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Marcus Ulrich

Daily users:

Rating:

5.00

(1)

Version:

0.0.4 Last updated: 2023-10-24

Version code:

5641163

Creation date:

2023-10-04

Risk:

Permissions:

<all_urls>
storage

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

654.62KB

Email:

sh*****@mallocs.net

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-18

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 80,673 ▲ 55,889

Other rankings

#33 in shift keyword 27 ▲ 26

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Developed by:

Marcus Ulrich

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/shift-guard/

Email:

sh*****@mallocs.net

Website:

https://github.com/mallocs/shift-guard

Is Shift Guard Safe?

Risk impact

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Shift Guard requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

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Shift Guard 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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