The Great Suspender: New maintainer is probably malicious
I am one of the few people that inspects the source-code of extensions. It's easy to do, for Firefox for example, just right-click and save-as in the extensions site, then rename your extension to a .zip file and extract e.g:<p><pre><code>    addon.xpi --> addon.zip
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Then manually sift through the code looking for obvious malicious intent (or not so obvious malicious intent if the author is doing obfuscation). Note: obfuscation is a red flag! A simple scan for `<a href="https://" rel="nofollow">https://</a>` / '<a href="http://" rel="nofollow">http://</a>'  would usually yield interesting URLs where data is sent. I have actually spotted malicious addons in the wild this way and reported them to Mozilla. They were thankfully removed.<p>Note: Obfuscation is NOT the same as minification, and I don't mean minification when using the word obfuscation!