The sessions permission
An extension holding sessions can
see and restore tabs you recently closed, including on your other devices.
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
- 135
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.2%
- Risk weight
- 0/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 135 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browser Redirection Extension | Manifest V3 | 1M | 100 |
| Vimium C - All by Keyboard | Manifest V3 | 90k | 65 |
| Incredible StartPage - Productive Start Page | Manifest V3 | 50k | 12 |
| FlowMouse - Mouse Gestures | Manifest V3 | 50k | 45 |
| Surfingkeys | Manifest V3 | 30k | 100 |
| Undo Closed Tabs Button | Manifest V3 | 30k | 5 |
| Browser Locker | Manifest V3 | 10k | 0 |
| Tab Restore | Manifest V3 | 9k | 5 |
| Mouse Gesture and Wheel Action | Manifest V3 | 7k | 45 |
| Ultra Button | Manifest V3 | 6k | 43 |
| Vertical Tabs for Google Chrome™ | Manifest V3 | 4k | 5 |
| ProTABS - The Tab Manager for Pros | Manifest V3 | 3k | 5 |
| Vertical SidePanel Tab Group Manager | Manifest V3 | 3k | 50 |
| WebTerminal | Manifest V3 | 3k | 90 |
| Cheerie - You Search. We Donate. | Manifest V3 | 1k | 40 |
| UserAdvocate | Manifest V3 | 1k | 55 |
| Trackpad Gestures | Manifest V3 | 628 | 55 |
| Colour New Tab | Manifest V3 | 423 | 55 |
| Chromemacs | Manifest V3 | 401 | 60 |
| Vimmatic | Manifest V3 | 357 | 50 |
| Tabisto: Bookmark Manager, New Tab Dashboard, Workspaces & Sessions | Manifest V3 | 297 | 19 |
| Open New Tabs - Current Right, Left or Default | Manifest V3 | 274 | 5 |
| Undo Closed Tabs – Reopen Last Tab | Manifest V3 | 271 | 35 |
| Lite InPrivate | Manifest V3 | 258 | 45 |
| Control Space | Manifest V3 | 228 | 60 |
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