Yahoo! Mail Alerter

Name: Yahoo! Mail Alerter
Rating: 4.1579 (19 reviews)
Author: Ngo Kim Phu

Uses your Yahoo! login cookie to check for new Yahoo! mails (i.e. no password required)

Yahoo! Mail Alerter is a Firefox add-on that uses your Yahoo! login cookie to directly connect to Yahoo! Mail, checking for new emails without requiring a password. It provides alerts when new emails arrive in your Yahoo! Mail box and does not send your data to any remote server.

Free XPI download

By: Ngo Kim Phu

Daily users: 270

-3

Rating: 4.16

(19)

Version: 1.5.1 (Last updated: 2020-03-27)

Version code: 4991487

Creation date: 2018-03-08

Weekly download count: 4

Firefox on Android: No

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
notifications
contextMenus
https://mail.yahoo.com/
https://login.yahoo.com/

Size: 28.09K

Email: ki*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

Full description: See detailed description

Source: Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated: a day ago

Ranking

# 6,399 ▼ 16

Other rankings

#192 in Alerts & Updates ▼ 2

#10 in yahoo keyword 76

#17 in mail keyword 94

#66 in hotmail keyword 87

#72 in trademark keyword 13 ▲ 1

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User reviews

by 退出党团队远离中共邪教, 2025-03-03

by Firefox user 18307479, 2024-02-28

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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Yahoo! Mail Alerter requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Yahoo! Mail Alerter 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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