The favicon permission
An extension holding favicon can
read the site icons of pages in your history.
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
- 421
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.6%
- Risk weight
- 0/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 421 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| OneTab | Manifest V3 | 2M | 15 |
| Tab Resize - split screen layouts | Manifest V3 | 1M | 5 |
| New Tab Redirect | Manifest V3 | 700k | 6 |
| Glean | Manifest V3 | 700k | 30 |
| RoboForm Password Manager | Manifest V3 | 600k | 100 |
| Bookmark Sidebar | Manifest V3 | 300k | 45 |
| Google Arts & Culture | Manifest V3 | 200k | 11 |
| Tab Manager Plus for Chrome | Manifest V3 | 200k | 5 |
| Speed Dial | Manifest V3 | 200k | 35 |
| Tab Suspender | Manifest V3 | 100k | 45 |
| Tabs Outliner | Manifest V3 | 100k | 9 |
| PhotoShow | Manifest V3 | 100k | 78 |
| Vertical Tabs in Side Panel | Manifest V3 | 100k | 5 |
| Vimium C - All by Keyboard | Manifest V3 | 90k | 65 |
| Awesome New Tab Page™ | Manifest V3 | 80k | 5 |
| Cursorful - Screen Recorder with Auto Zoom | Manifest V3 | 60k | 65 |
| History Trends Unlimited | Manifest V3 | 60k | 10 |
| Incredible StartPage - Productive Start Page | Manifest V3 | 50k | 12 |
| FlowMouse - Mouse Gestures | Manifest V3 | 50k | 45 |
| Samsung Pass | Manifest V3 | 50k | 50 |
| Bookmark Favicon Changer | Manifest V3 | 40k | 83 |
| Surfingkeys | Manifest V3 | 30k | 100 |
| Bookmarks Quick Search | Manifest V3 | 20k | 5 |
| Readline | Manifest V3 | 20k | 40 |
| tabExtend - Easy Tab manager | Manifest V3 | 20k | 9 |
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