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New Tab

Chrome extension·by nickav
99
/ 100 SAFETY SCORE
EXCELLENT
Looks clean. No meaningful risks detected in this scan.

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How it ranks

New Tab's safety score vs every other extension we've scanned
Globally
90%of extensions carry more risk
This extension
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 401,999 extensions
In Productivity
96%of productivity extensions carry more risk
This extension
Riskier ←→ Safer
Ranked against 194,438 productivity extensions
Findings
1
median 16Lower is safer
Critical findings
0
median 0Severity = Critical
Permissions
0
median 3Declared in manifest
Active users
9
median 14vs category median

Findings breakdown

Automated security signal · 1 distinct issue across 6 severities
1
distinct issues
detected

Permissions requested

0 permissions declared
No permissions requested
This extension doesn't request any browser permissions. That's unusually clean.

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Scan performed by extenshi.io · Aug 8, 2026
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