Comments on: Better Gmail 2 extension adds sweet features to Gmail

By: sbtablet

sbtablet — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:53:07 +0000

Frustrated,

You have to consider the source. Gina Trapani is much too busy running LifeHacker to be busy skimming your contacts list.

I don't program either, but GreaseMonkey scripts are not long or hard to look at. The source code is readily available and it's on the Mozilla site. Those add-ons are checked for malware.

By: Frustrated Consumer

Frustrated Consumer — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:12:01 +0000

I'm far too paranoid to use an add on like this.

How do I know that it's not harvesting names from my account?
Or stealing my logon?

I guess that's true for any add-on (I only use 1 or 2) but still...isn't this a bit too risky?

I suppose if I knew enough coding to read what it's doing, I'd be more comfortable...