{"id":44204,"date":"2024-07-24T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=44204"},"modified":"2024-07-24T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:15:20","slug":"safari-profiles-and-extension-permissions-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/24\/safari-profiles-and-extension-permissions-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari Profiles and Extension Permissions Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/underpassapp.com\/news\/2024\/7\/4.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/underpassapp.com\/news\/2024\/7\/4.html\"><p>I&rsquo;ve discovered a bug that unexpectedly causes Safari extensions in a profile to lose access to websites. I&rsquo;ve reproduced the bug in Safari 17.5 on macOS 14.5 and in the Safari 18 beta on the macOS 15 beta. I haven&rsquo;t yet been able to reproduce on iOS, but correspondence with a customer&mdash;the origin of my discovery&mdash;suggests that the bug may also exist on iOS. Here are steps to reproduce on Mac with StopTheMadness Pro[&#8230;]<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Curiously, and falsely, Safari Websites Settings still claims that everything is allowed.<\/p><p>The worst part is that if you&rsquo;re temporarily experiencing this Safari bug where extensions lack access to websites, and you click Always Allow on This Website, that confused action <em>permanently<\/em> erases the permissions to access all <code>http<\/code> and <code>https<\/code> pages, as seen under the new <code>GrantedPermissionOrigins<\/code> in the profile&rsquo;s <code>Extensions.plist<\/code> file.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/04\/disabled-safari-extensions-are-not-fully-disabled\/\">Disabled Safari Extensions Are Not Fully Disabled<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/21\/safari-17-profiles\/\">Safari 17 Profiles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/27\/disappearing-safari-extensions\/\">Disappearing Safari Extensions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/03\/unable-to-enable-safari-extensions\/\">Unable to Enable Safari Extensions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/27\/safari-runs-disabled-extensions\/\">Safari Runs Disabled Extensions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson: I&rsquo;ve discovered a bug that unexpectedly causes Safari extensions in a profile to lose access to websites. I&rsquo;ve reproduced the bug in Safari 17.5 on macOS 14.5 and in the Safari 18 beta on the macOS 15 beta. I haven&rsquo;t yet been able to reproduce on iOS, but correspondence with a customer&mdash;the origin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-07-24T20:15:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"aa7d3ad2-6a9b-4015-816d-652b850bec47","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-07-24T20:15:23Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aqn060mqbQBWBbWUrhQvsRw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,30,2385,2598,103,2246,1775],"class_list":["post-44204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-safari","tag-safari-extensions","tag-stop-the-madness"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44205,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44204\/revisions\/44205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}