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The sidePanel permission

Chrome extension permission · by Alex · checked

An extension holding sidePanel can show its own panel beside the page.

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
4,339
Share of those we have checked
6.5%
Risk weight
0/100

Who asks for it

Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 4,339 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.

ExtensionPlatformUsersReach
Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools Manifest V3 320M 100
Grammarly: AI Writing Assistant and Grammar Checker App Manifest V3 38M 79
Bitwarden Password Manager Manifest V3 7M 95
Sider: Chat with all AI: GPT-5, Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok Manifest V3 5M 97
Quillbot: AI Writing Assistant with Humanizer, Paraphraser & AI Detector Manifest V3 5M 70
Video Downloader Professional Manifest V3 5M 68
DeepL: translate and write with AI Manifest V3 4M 100
Monica: All-In-One AI Assist & Smartest AI Agent Manifest V3 3M 40
Coupert - Automatic Coupon Finder & Cashback Manifest V3 3M 89
Tag Assistant Manifest V3 3M 45
Image Downloader Manifest V3 2M 18
Checker Plus for Gmail™ Manifest V3 1M 31
HubSpot Sales Manifest V3 1M 75
Scribe: AI Documentation, SOPs & Process Intelligence Manifest V3 1M 75
Stylus Manifest V3 1M 89
Speechify — Text to Speech Manifest V3 1M 57
Auto Refresh Plus | Page Monitor Manifest V3 1M 45
Transpose ▲▼ pitch ▹ speed ▹ loop Manifest V3 1M 10
Wordtune: AI Paraphrasing and Grammar Tool Manifest V3 1M 75
Apollo.io: Free B2B Phone Number & Email Finder Manifest V3 1M 45
Trust Wallet Manifest V3 1M 45
Chat with all AI models (Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek…) & AI Agents | AITOPIA Manifest V3 900k 45
Adobe Photoshop Manifest V3 800k 35
eJOY AI Dictionary Manifest V3 700k 45
Glean Manifest V3 700k 30

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