How to Change Chrome Extension Permissions

This article shows you how to Change Chrome Extension Permissions. It includes information on the purpose of extensions. The Chrome Web Store is home to tons of free apps, extensions, and themes to add to your Chrome browser, allowing you to do much more.

Adding browser extensions can make visiting web pages and using the web more beneficial, as they can offer new features or shortcuts. Google said in October that users would be able to control the permissions of each Chrome extension. This long-promised feature finally came out near the end of December. You no longer have to worry about adding a few more Chrome extensions.

You can now control the permissions after installing an extension. Before, extensions had to ask for permission to access all of the data on the sites you visit. Meaning they were able to change or read the data on every site that you visit. Now that Google has added this feature, you can change this setting to fit your needs.

Ways to Change Chrome Extension Permissions

You can change the permissions of your Chrome extensions in two ways, and both of them deal with changing how extensions access sites. You can also go to the official Google chrome support site to know more information about this.

The first way is to use the extension’s icon in the extensions bar. The second way is to directly change the list of site domains in the extension’s settings. Let’s talk about each.

Change the Permissions of Chrome Extensions by Extension Icons

Your Chrome extensions bar is the area of the browser to the right of the address bar where you can see icons for the extensions you’ve installed.

• If you right-click on one of your extensions‘ icons and hover over “This can read and change site data,” you’ll see three options that let you quickly change the extension’s permissions:
  • When you click the extension
  • On the site you’re currently on
  • On all sites
• If you choose the first option, the extension can’t read or change anything until you click the icon. The other two make sense on their own.
• This is helpful if you have one extension that makes a lot of noise. If one of your extensions is constantly using network data or sending you notifications, limiting it with one of these options is a great way to get it under control without having to remove it completely.

Change the Permissions of Chrome Extensions by Extension Settings

If you like the idea of limiting the sites where an extension can read and change data but don’t want to go to each one individually, you can enter them manually through the settings of the extension.

• To do this, click on the hamburger menu icon to the right of your extensions bar, then go to “More tools” and Extensions.
• This will bring up a page with a list of all the extensions you’ve added. Click the Details button below the extension whose permissions you want to change.
• On the next page, you’ll see the same three options that you see when you click on the icons in the extensions bar. But if you choose “On specific sites” here, which you probably didn’t do before, you’ll be able to add websites by their URLs.
• If this option was already chosen for the extension you’re changing, or if you’ve added at least one site, you’ll see a full list of the sites that are allowed. From there, you can add or remove more of them.