>I will be open sourcing the Sidewise codebase in the not too distant future, at which point other developers can independently verify that Sidewise does not do anything bad with its access to these permissions.

Until then, the best I can offer you is my personal promise that Sidewise does not, and never will read or collect any of your personal information without your explicit permission.

Good enough for me :-)

Thanks very much for the extension, it was the enabler that allowed me move to Chrome.

This came up in comments at my blog: http://silverwav.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/goodbye-firefox-its-been-fun-hello-chrome-my-cool-new-friend/

See the comments, I dont think the commenter is a disinterested party... but I do like the extension a lot and would like to help it be sucessful.

If this permission could be removed I think it would help.