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The nativeMessaging permission

Chrome extension permission · by Alex · checked

An extension holding nativeMessaging can exchange messages with a companion program installed on your computer.

We weight it 20 out of 100 when scoring how much an extension can reach. That is a measure of capability, not of behaviour: plenty of extensions need this to do their job.

Extensions we track using it
476
Share of those we have checked
0.7%
Risk weight
20/100

Who asks for it

Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 476 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.

ExtensionPlatformUsersReach
Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools Manifest V3 320M 100
Chrome Remote Desktop Manifest V3 37M 28
Cisco Webex Extension Manifest V3 21M 24
360 Internet Protection Manifest V3 18M 90
Malwarebytes Browser Guard Manifest V3 11M 100
Online Security Manifest V3 11M 100
TouchEn PC보안 확장 Manifest V3 8M 60
WPS PDF - Read, Edit, Fill, Convert, and AI Chat PDF with Ease Manifest V3 6M 100
AnyDoc Translator - Translate Web and PDF Manifest V3 6M 95
iCloud Bookmarks Manifest V3 6M 25
IE Tab Manifest V3 4M 100
Web PKI Manifest V3 4M 63
Free Download Manager Manifest V3 3M 100
Адаптер Рутокен Плагин Manifest V3 2M 60
TrafficLight Manifest V3 1M 98
Адаптер Рутокен Коннект Manifest V3 1M 71
Solventum Fluency Direct Web Connector Manifest V3 1M 85
Avaya Browser Extension Manifest V3 1M 55
think-cell Manifest V3 1M 34
Browser Redirection Extension Manifest V3 1M 100
ExpressVPN: VPN & proxy browser extension Manifest V3 1M 100
Ntko office document control browser plug-in. Manifest V3 900k 85
Postman Interceptor Manifest V3 700k 67
Copyfish 🐟 Free OCR Software Manifest V3 700k 40
GNOME Shell integration Manifest V3 700k 24

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