Extension Guard - Manage and secure extensions
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Featured
- Extension status: In-App Purchases
Access your extension's risk level, stats, and trends, powered by Chrome-Stats data. Get notifications on extension updates.
🔒 Take Control of Your Browser Security with Extension Guard! 🌟
Supercharge your Chrome management with our extension featuring real-time Chrome-Stats integration! 🚀 Here's why you'll love it:
🛡️ Smart Protection
- 🔍 Instantly uncover risk levels, permissions, and hidden access requests
- 🚨 Auto-alerts for newly installed, updated, or suspicious extensions
- 🌟 See user ratings, install counts, and weekly trends (⬆️⬇️)
⚡ One-Click Control
- ✅ Enable/disable extensions in 1 tap
- 🗑️ Remove bloatware instantly – no digging through settings
IMPORTANT: We have split up Extension Guard and Chrome-Stats into separate extensions. If you would like to view extension stats while browsing the Chrome Web Store, download and install https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kgglldjfbljldpocinaomhalhoehenhm instead.
Your browser deserves a bodyguard. 💂♂️✨
Changelogs:
- v3.0.0 - Split up Extension Guard and Chrome-Stats
- v2.0.5 - Minor internal API changes and UI fixes
- v2.0.4 - Reduce analyze extension API calls
- v2.0.3 - Add alert on publisher email changed
- v2.0.2 - Add notification history
- v2.0.1 - Add option to show Chrome-Stats popup on icon click instead of Extension Guard directly
Latest reviews
- Drew Hastings
- So far the extension is great, doesn't do anything out of the ordinary (meaning nothing that would be a cause for concern like phoning home things it shouldn't, exfiltrating data, redirecting or anything along those lines that would be malware like). Really happy with the extension and now running it on Chrome, Firefox and will be running it on all my systems going forward because one of my fears is an extension being taken over by a bad actor, and then turning a once good extension into a source of malware. This extension helps me to know (via notifications) when an extension is installed, removed, updated, or has the publisher email changed. Plus the info on their site is great too! Seriously, great extension! I reached out to Support RE: the extension throwing some error codes in dev tools (console specifically) which ended up just being that Extension Guard was not loading some of my other extensions favicons. Hao let me know why it was not loading them (browser security restrictions) which makes total sense and is fair. They can only play within the browser extension rules that they are afforded. And it (not loading the extensions favicons) doesn't break functionality at all, just maybe doesn't look as clean as I'd like. I wish the browser would allow them to load the favicons from the web store or wherever but again not something they can do without busting out of the rules they are given by Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, etc. so its not on them; and Google/Mozilla/Microsoft have very valid reasons for not allowing this to occur I'm sure.
- Logan Spencer
- Writing this just in spite of Naresh Sharma... what a bozo
- toybill
- Hey Developers is there a way you can make all the old versions free or no so i can download them and no there is no other websites that have them for free just chrome-stats does that's it though but you have to pay for them and it has to be free for the chrome extensions it does like old versions i am talking about i am and also i am using it to download the old transpose.video extension old versions i am and the transpose.video extension is where you change transpose and fine tuning pitch it is and also make them free for edge too please if you can
- Extra Virgi
- I use the extension to check what permissions an extension requires before installing it from the Chrome Store. The update from March 19, 2025 causes two issues: 1. Removed popup function --> FIXED Before you could choose between a popup or sidebar when clicking the extension's icon. The popup option has been removed. Now only the sidebar is shown, which already takes 1/5 of the screen and cannot be toggled on/off anymore with 1 click on the extension's icon. 2. More permissions The new version requires more permissions. Before: tabs, sidePanel Now: management, notifications, storage, tabs, sidePanel I prefer the simple popup design and less intrusive permissions of the older version. Thanks for all your hard work and time you put into it. Edit: Glad to see the popup functionality working again. About point 2, I understand that the new functionalities need additional permissions, even if they are not needed for my specific use case. Final verdict - 4/5
- Naresh Sharma
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- Alireza Eskandari
- Thanks for your website and extension!
- Uladzimir Yankovich
- Very useful. Great job 🤩. Glad to be the first!