Chrome extensions that can disable your other extensions

This permission lets one extension list, disable or remove the others — including ones you installed to protect yourself.

3
Extensions
1%
Share of tracked
729K
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 manage other extensions

Other permissions

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.