# The Onion Notifier

> Notify you when you visit a website that offer an .onion domain. Only intended for use with the Tor Browser based on Firefox 52 (version 7.0a3 and later).

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/the-onion-notifier](https://chrome-stats.com/d/the-onion-notifier)

## Overview

- **ID:** `the-onion-notifier`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Stefan Sundin
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 10
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 3.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-05-22
- **Size:** 22 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/the-onion-notifier/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/stefansundin/the-onion-notifier](https://github.com/stefansundin/the-onion-notifier)

## Description

The Onion Notifier is a Firefox add-on that alerts you when you visit websites with .onion domains. It is designed for use with the Tor Browser based on Firefox 52 or later. You can customize the default database and suggest changes on GitHub.

## Rankings

- #33,000 — Overall
- #120 — notion

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `notifications`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate 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/the-onion-notifier)