The serial permission
An extension holding serial can
talk directly to devices connected over a serial port.
We weight it 18 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
- 72
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.1%
- Risk weight
- 18/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 72 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beagle Term | Manifest V2 | 4k | 18 |
| Strawbees CODE Helper | unknown | 4k | 36 |
| KissFC | Manifest V2 | 3k | 38 |
| WFduino for Scratch | Manifest V2 | 2k | 40 |
| RapidFlash | Manifest V2 | 2k | 42 |
| Ritm Configure | Manifest V2 | 2k | 35 |
| AVRChick | Manifest V2 | 2k | 18 |
| Serial Monitor | Manifest V2 | 2k | 18 |
| Cleanflight配置器 | Manifest V2 | 406 | 48 |
| UARTool | Manifest V2 | 327 | 18 |
| NMEA Sleuth | Manifest V2 | 272 | 28 |
| RCbenchmark.com - GUI | Manifest V2 | 241 | 24 |
| FPV Race Tracker | Manifest V2 | 216 | 34 |
| Global Satellite Messenger | Manifest V2 | 139 | 18 |
| Smart Citizen Kit | Manifest V2 | 110 | 48 |
| Selah Effects Quartz Timer (alpha) | Manifest V2 | 99 | 18 |
| vThings - Device Configuration Tool | Manifest V2 | 58 | 18 |
| Winged Wireless Monitor | Manifest V2 | 56 | 18 |
| VNPT HIS - Đón kết quả xét nghiệm | Manifest V2 | 46 | 22 |
| 读取 USB 与串行接口设备的数据 | Manifest V2 | 36 | 48 |
| Robbo Scratch 3 | Manifest V2 | 36 | 36 |
| App APIs REPL | unknown | 31 | 100 |
| Hardware Extension for PageNodes | Manifest V2 | 29 | 65 |
| IMI Gateway | Manifest V2 | 25 | 53 |
| Кассир | Manifest V2 | 20 | 28 |
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