WebExtension: Permissions on Windows

[DagNygren]

On Windows this plugin is requesting permissions to access the whole computer ???
Is this a mistake or by design?

Sounds quite risky to me.

[thsmi]

This nothing to worry about, as described in Thunderbird's help/support page:

"The extension is using an older technology and has full access to Thunderbird’s internal APIs and does not need to request individual permissions. Up to Thunderbird 68 almost every add-on had this unrestricted access without specifically asking for it. Add-ons request this permission, as long as the new permission based API system does not yet offer the functionality they need. "

Excerpt from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/permission-request-messages-thunderbird-extensions#w_have-full-unrestricted-access-to-thunderbird-and-your-computer

Currently Thunderbird WebExtension API does not offer any API for TCP Sockets, so the only chance for the WebExtension is to stick with the internal API. The webextension has the very same permissions as the legacy addon had for the last one and a half decade.