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The contextMenus permission

Chrome extension permission · by Alex · checked

An extension holding contextMenus can add its own items to your right-click menu.

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
5,620
Share of those we have checked
8.4%
Risk weight
0/100

Who asks for it

Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 5,620 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.

ExtensionPlatformUsersReach
Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools Manifest V3 320M 100
AdBlock — block ads across the web Manifest V3 61M 70
Adblock Plus - free ad blocker Manifest V3 38M 70
Google Translate Manifest V3 34M 40
VPN for Chrome: NordVPN proxy protection Manifest V3 14M 100
Tampermonkey Manifest V3 12M 100
Malwarebytes Browser Guard Manifest V3 11M 100
Online Security Manifest V3 11M 100
Loom – Screen Recorder & Screen Capture Manifest V3 8M 100
NordPass® Password Manager & Digital Vault Manifest V3 8M 78
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
Microsoft Bing Homepage & Search for Chrome Manifest V3 5M 75
Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker Manifest V3 4M 42
DeepL: translate and write with AI Manifest V3 4M 100
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader Manifest V3 4M 16
IE Tab Manifest V3 4M 100
BTRoblox - Making Roblox Better Manifest V3 4M 14
Awesome Screen Recorder & Screenshot Manifest V3 4M 100
Monica: All-In-One AI Assist & Smartest AI Agent Manifest V3 3M 40
Ad Blocker: Stands AdBlocker Manifest V3 3M 45

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