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The offscreen permission

Chrome extension permission · by Alex · checked

An extension holding offscreen can do work in a hidden page, for tasks a background script cannot do alone.

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
2,058
Share of those we have checked
3.1%
Risk weight
0/100

Who asks for it

Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 2,058 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.

ExtensionPlatformUsersReach
Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools Manifest V3 320M 100
Google Translate Manifest V3 34M 40
uBlock Origin Lite Manifest V3 18M 62
VPN for Chrome: NordVPN proxy protection Manifest V3 14M 100
Tampermonkey Manifest V3 12M 100
NordPass® Password Manager & Digital Vault Manifest V3 8M 78
Screencastify - Screen Video Recorder Manifest V3 7M 77
Bitwarden Password Manager Manifest V3 7M 95
Mobility Print Manifest V3 7M 44
Urban VPN Proxy Manifest V3 6M 100
Sider: Chat with all AI: GPT-5, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok Manifest V3 5M 97
ColorZilla Manifest V3 4M 45
Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker Manifest V3 4M 42
Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader Manifest V3 4M 16
IE Tab Manifest V3 4M 100
Awesome Screen Recorder & Screenshot Manifest V3 4M 100
Google Input Tools Manifest V3 3M 45
Momentum Manifest V3 2M 0
Volume Booster Manifest V3 2M 42
Ghostery AdBlocker for Privacy Manifest V3 2M 100
Free VPN For Chrome - VPN Extension - Windscribe Manifest V3 2M 100
Pie Adblock - A Powerful Free Ad Blocker Manifest V3 2M 100
Keeper® Password Manager & Digital Vault Manifest V3 2M 100
Checker Plus for Gmail™ Manifest V3 1M 31
User-Agent Switcher for Chrome Manifest V3 1M 35

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