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The activeTab permission

Chrome extension permission · by Alex · checked

An extension holding activeTab can read and change the page in the current tab, but only after you click the extension.

We give it no weight when scoring how much an extension can reach: on its own it exposes nothing about you.

Extensions we track using it
17,538
Share of those we have checked
26.1%
Risk weight
0/100

Who asks for it

Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 17,538 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.

ExtensionPlatformUsersReach
Google Translate Manifest V3 34M 40
uBlock Origin Lite Manifest V3 18M 62
360 Internet Protection Manifest V3 18M 90
VPN for Chrome: NordVPN proxy protection Manifest V3 14M 100
Malwarebytes Browser Guard Manifest V3 11M 100
Netflix Party is now Teleparty Manifest V3 10M 10
Loom – Screen Recorder & Screen Capture Manifest V3 8M 100
Screencastify - Screen Video Recorder Manifest V3 7M 77
Bitwarden Password Manager Manifest V3 7M 95
Google Keep Chrome Extension Manifest V3 7M 31
AnyDoc Translator - Translate Web and PDF Manifest V3 6M 95
Sider: Chat with all AI: GPT-5, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok Manifest V3 5M 97
Quillbot: AI Writing Assistant with Humanizer, Paraphraser & AI Detector Manifest V3 5M 70
Save to Pinterest Manifest V3 5M 60
DeepL: translate and write with AI Manifest V3 4M 100
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader Manifest V3 4M 16
Awesome Screen Recorder & Screenshot Manifest V3 4M 100
Coupert - Automatic Coupon Finder & Cashback Manifest V3 3M 89
Ad Blocker: Stands AdBlocker Manifest V3 3M 45
BetterTTV Manifest V3 3M 12
DuckDuckGo Search & Tracker Protection Manifest V3 3M 100
Free Download Manager Manifest V3 3M 100
Image Downloader Manifest V3 2M 18
7TV Manifest V3 2M 12
WA Web Plus by Elbruz Technologies Manifest V3 2M 14

Counts are of extensions we have checked ourselves, not of the whole Chrome Web Store. Chrome's own reference for developers: developer.chrome.com. How we weight permissions