The tabGroups permission
An extension holding tabGroups can
see and change how your tabs are grouped.
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
- 534
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.8%
- Risk weight
- 0/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 534 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Multiple URLs | Manifest V3 | 700k | 0 |
| Vertical Tabs in Side Panel | Manifest V3 | 100k | 5 |
| Vimium C - All by Keyboard | Manifest V3 | 90k | 65 |
| Surfingkeys | Manifest V3 | 30k | 100 |
| tabExtend - Easy Tab manager | Manifest V3 | 20k | 9 |
| Flash Copilot - Powered by DeepSeek | Manifest V3 | 10k | 60 |
| TabPilot - formerly Tab Group Saver | Manifest V3 | 10k | 9 |
| Workspaces | Manifest V3 | 10k | 5 |
| AnyGen Browser Operator | Manifest V3 | 10k | 100 |
| Twillot - X Bookmarks, Search & Export | Manifest V3 | 10k | 27 |
| Acid Tabs | Manifest V3 | 10k | 5 |
| Tabme — Tab & Bookmark Manager | Save, Organize & Sync Tabs | Manifest V3 | 9k | 24 |
| PAGENOTE – Web & PDF Highlighter, PDF Annotator | Local-First, No Login | Manifest V3 | 9k | 58 |
| Tabmanager.io - Tab Session Manager | Manifest V3 | 9k | 5 |
| Mark tab manager | Manifest V3 | 8k | 20 |
| Tab Shelf - Side panel vertical tabs | Manifest V3 | 7k | 10 |
| Tab Deck - Tab/Tab Group Manager | Manifest V3 | 6k | 9 |
| Spaceboard - New tab dashboard | Manifest V3 | 6k | 70 |
| tabVertikal - vertical tabs | Manifest V3 | 4k | 5 |
| Vertical Tabs for Google Chrome™ | Manifest V3 | 4k | 5 |
| Nice Tab Manager | Manifest V3 | 4k | 45 |
| GoTo Tab | Manifest V3 | 4k | 15 |
| Vertical SidePanel Tab Group Manager | Manifest V3 | 3k | 50 |
| Tabs aside | Manifest V3 | 3k | 5 |
| Tab Manager Auto | Manifest V3 | 3k | 5 |
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