ExtensionSunset

The system.network permission

An extension holding system.network can see your network interfaces and addresses.

We weight it 5 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
46
Share of those we have checked
0.1%
Risk weight
5/100

Who asks for it

Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 46 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.

ExtensionPlatformUsersReach
Mobility Print Manifest V3 7M 44
Cog - System Info Viewer Manifest V2 100k 5
Transcreen Manifest V2 80k 100
CrOSPerf - Chrome OS Performance Manifest V2 20k 5
EZCast Manifest V2 8k 84
Web Quake Manifest V2 8k 25
WifiTransfer - Instant wireless file transfer unknown 7k 15
Chrome OS P2P Updates Manifest V2 5k 10
Edelvives_Texto Manifest V2 5k 33
Airtame Legacy Manifest V2 3k 32
Ritm Configure Manifest V2 2k 35
TV Stream Manifest V2 1k 39
CMA HID Server Manifest V2 996 27
Quick Search Manifest V2 831 49
Remotifi Manifest V2 452 10
LAN SMS Manifest V2 192 17
T21 Finder Manifest V2 191 17
Vox-L Go Manifest V2 107 5
Simpl.js Manifest V2 105 11
ViWi Manifest V2 68 59
App APIs REPL unknown 31 100
Hardware Extension for PageNodes Manifest V2 29 65
Easylife.com - System Analyzer Manifest V2 19 5
Edbot Chromebook Helper Manifest V2 9 5
SyberGate - SPOKES Retail Manifest V2 6 33

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