The fileSystem permission
An extension holding fileSystem can
read and write files you choose from your computer.
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
- 41
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.1%
- Risk weight
- 0/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 41 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools | Manifest V3 | 320M | 100 |
| IPEVO Whiteboard | Manifest V2 | 30k | 82 |
| EZCast | Manifest V2 | 8k | 84 |
| Touch Drawing App | Manifest V2 | 5k | 0 |
| My Story Editor | Manifest V2 | 5k | 0 |
| Edelvives_Texto | Manifest V2 | 5k | 33 |
| KeePass Chrome | Manifest V2 | 3k | 6 |
| RapidFlash | Manifest V2 | 2k | 42 |
| AVRChick | Manifest V2 | 2k | 18 |
| Quick Search | Manifest V2 | 831 | 49 |
| Remotifi | Manifest V2 | 452 | 10 |
| Cleanflight配置器 | Manifest V2 | 406 | 48 |
| Tailor | unknown | 368 | 4 |
| UARTool | Manifest V2 | 327 | 18 |
| RCbenchmark.com - GUI | Manifest V2 | 241 | 24 |
| nBook | Manifest V2 | 107 | 14 |
| Swapcast | Manifest V2 | 88 | 100 |
| Vape Assistant | Manifest V2 | 88 | 6 |
| Markdown Previewer | Manifest V2 | 49 | 0 |
| Apic App | Manifest V2 | 42 | 44 |
| QUASI88 CR | Manifest V2 | 39 | 0 |
| Tc calculator | Manifest V2 | 34 | 0 |
| IMI Gateway | Manifest V2 | 25 | 53 |
| JobHunter | Manifest V2 | 24 | 40 |
| NoLookPaste | Manifest V2 | 11 | 10 |
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