The webview permission
An extension holding webview can
embed and control web pages inside its own interface.
We weight it 10 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
- 334
- Share of those we have checked
- 0.5%
- Risk weight
- 10/100
Who asks for it
Out of the 67,225 extensions we have examined, 334 declare this permission. These are the largest of them by user count.
| Extension | Platform | Users | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remind | Manifest V2 | 100k | 18 |
| Telegram | Manifest V2 | 100k | 10 |
| Transcreen | Manifest V2 | 80k | 100 |
| VXG Media Player | Manifest V2 | 40k | 40 |
| IPEVO Whiteboard | Manifest V2 | 30k | 82 |
| Synology Note Station | Manifest V2 | 10k | 75 |
| Smartsheet Chrome App | Manifest V2 | 10k | 16 |
| Pluto TV: TV for the Internet | Manifest V2 | 10k | 22 |
| EPUB Reader | Manifest V2 | 10k | 12 |
| Plotly | unknown | 9k | 12 |
| EZCast | Manifest V2 | 8k | 84 |
| Web Quake | Manifest V2 | 8k | 25 |
| ForumFree | Manifest V2 | 7k | 40 |
| WifiTransfer - Instant wireless file transfer | unknown | 7k | 15 |
| App Launcher for Inbox by Gmail App | Manifest V2 | 7k | 52 |
| niichrome 2chブラウザ | Manifest V2 | 5k | 44 |
| Edelvives_Texto | Manifest V2 | 5k | 33 |
| Offline Solitaire | Manifest V2 | 4k | 10 |
| Calmly Writer | Manifest V2 | 4k | 44 |
| VK Music Remote Server | Manifest V2 | 4k | 10 |
| Tasks App | Manifest V2 | 3k | 10 |
| Ball And Wall | Manifest V2 | 3k | 24 |
| ClassSend | Manifest V2 | 2k | 44 |
| Ritm Configure | Manifest V2 | 2k | 35 |
| Twitter Desktop | Manifest V2 | 2k | 10 |
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