PixFerry collects nothing.
There is no server, no account system and no analytics. The extension makes no network requests of its own, and loads no remote fonts, scripts or images.
Your images
Pressing the download button asks your browser to fetch that image from the site you are already on and write it to your download folder. The request goes to that site, exactly as it would if you saved the picture yourself. It goes nowhere else.
The extension keeps no record of what you have downloaded and builds no index of the pictures on a page. It looks at the one under your pointer, to know where the button goes and which file to ask for.
The pages you visit
PixFerry has access to every site, because a button that appears on any image has to be able to see any image. That access is used for one thing: finding the picture under your pointer and reading its address.
Page content is never collected, stored or sent anywhere. Browsing history is not read. Nothing about which sites you visit leaves your computer, and the extension has no mechanism that could send it.
What is stored
Your own settings, and nothing else: the button surface and accent, its position, the minimum image size, your download subfolder, your filename template, whether confirmations appear, and the list of sites you have switched off. They live in Firefox's local extension storage on your computer. Removing the extension removes them.
Permissions
- All sites
- Put the download button on an image, and read the address of the one you click.
- downloads
- Write the file to your download folder.
- storage
- Remember your settings.
- activeTab, scripting
- Restore the button on a single site whose access you revoked yourself.
The toolbar button switches PixFerry off for any site and keeps it off. Firefox's own extensions button goes further and revokes access to a site entirely.
Changes and questions
If this policy ever changes, the change will be described here with the date it took effect. Questions go to support@minorsoftware.com.
Last updated: 17 August 2026.