Chrome extensions that talk to programs on your computer
This reaches outside Chrome's sandbox to a companion application installed on your machine. Whatever that program can do, the extension can ask it to do.
11
Extensions
4%
Share of tracked
340.0M
Combined installs
Holding a permission is not wrongdoing. A password manager needs access to every site; a screen recorder needs the tab. What matters is whether the access matches what the extension is for. These lists let you make that judgement yourself, which the store’s one-line warning does not.
Extensions holding talk to programs on your computer
- Adobe Acrobat: PDF edit, convert, sign tools16 permissions333M
- AnyDoc Translator - Translate Web and PDF11 permissions6M
- eID Chrome Extension1 permissions · not updated in 44 months700K
- Idira Secure Web Sessions Extension21 permissions100K
- Delinea Credential Manager9 permissions70K
- Citrix Secure Access19 permissions50K
- Nuance EHRi Web Extension4 permissions · not updated in 31 months20K
- ScribbleVet Browser Companion21 permissions20K
- Excellent Data Filler15 permissions20K
- BdE eSignature Web Extension1 permissions · not updated in 44 months10K
- SADocumentExtension2 permissions · not updated in 26 months9K
Other permissions
Chrome extensions that can read every website you visitChrome extensions that can read your browsing historyChrome extensions that can read your cookiesChrome extensions using the debugger APIChrome extensions that can read your clipboardChrome extensions that can control your network proxyChrome extensions that can disable your other extensions
Permissions are read from each extension’s published manifest, as of 2026-09-16. Counts cover the 295 extensions tracked so far, not the whole store.