Why two distinct appearances of Extensions tab in Safari related to Permissions?

A) e.g., Zotero Connector

Permissions:

• Webpage Contents and Browsing History

Can read and alter sensitive information on webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards, and see your browsing history on:

> [list of manually-permitted URLs]

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

B) e.g., Obsidian Web Clipper

Permissions:

• Webpage Contents and Browsing History

Can read and alter sensitive information on webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards, and see your browsing history on:

> the current tab's webpage when you use the extension

> [list of manually-permitted URLs]

B seems to suggest that regardless of permissions, Webpage Contents and Browsing History are automatically and immediately available to "the current tab's webpage when you use the extension". However, practical suggests that perhaps this is just different wording for identical behavior.

Why is there a distinction between A & B? Does B indeed give implicit permissions for the "current tab"?

Posted on Dec 7, 2025 7:12 AM