Unity Launcher API Addon e10s

Name: Unity Launcher API Addon e10s
Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Author: Kotelnik

By: Kotelnik

Add-on for Unity Launcher API integration regarding download progress and count.

This add-on was removed from Firefox Add-ons Store on 2025-05-15

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Features & Capabilities

This add-on is basically what Unityfox add-on once did - pass along info about download progress to KDE Plasma 5 and Unity. If you have none of these desktop environments, this add-on is not for you.

It shows overall download progress and active download counts in task bar.

IMPORTANT: Due to security restrictions of WebExtensions platform you need to place 2 files to your home folder. Place these files: https://github.com/kotelnik/firefox-extension-unity-launcher-api-e10s/tree/master/app-side ...to folder: ~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/ ...and edit launcher_api_firefox_stdin.py.json so it contains proper absolute path to the python script, e.g. "/home/YOUR_USERNAME/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/launcher_api_firefox_stdin.py"

This add-on no longer requires libunity library to be installed because it calls dbus directly.

The code has around 150 lines (addon + app side combined) so you can quite quickly check what it really does. Interesting source code files:

background.js
launcher_api_firefox_stdin.py.

Arch Linux (AUR) packge: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-extension-unity-launcher-api-e10s

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Kotelnik

Daily users:

Rating:

3.40

(5)

Version:

1.1.6resigned1 Last updated: 2024-04-25

Version code:

5727405

Creation date:

2016-12-25

Risk:

Permissions:

Size:

13.16KB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2025-05-15

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Developed by:

Kotelnik

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/unity-launcher-api-addon-e10s/

User Reviews

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Is Unity Launcher API Addon e10s Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Unity Launcher API Addon e10s requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Medium Facilitates communication between extensions and native applications, usually low risk if managed correctly.
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Unity Launcher API Addon e10s may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.