Browser Permissions
What each permission TabSlate requests is used for.
TabSlate asks for the following browser permissions when you install it. Each one maps to a specific feature — none of them are used to read the content of the pages you visit.
| Permission | What it is used for |
|---|---|
tabs | Reading your open tabs' URLs, titles, and favicons so TabSlate can list and organize them, and letting you focus or close a tab from the workspace. |
tabGroups | Reading, creating, updating, and removing Chrome tab groups, so groups you create in Chrome show up in TabSlate and can be turned into saved groups. |
storage | Storing your preferences, local tab and bookmark data, and sign-in state in the browser's own sandboxed storage. |
contextMenus | Adding a right-click "Save to TabSlate" entry so you can save the current page without opening the workspace. |
scripting | Injecting the search overlay's script into a page — but only on sites you have explicitly granted access to (see below). |
search | Sending a query you type into TabSlate's search to your browser's default search engine. |
The optional <all_urls> permission
Unlike the permissions above, host access to all sites (<all_urls>) is optional and is not requested when you install TabSlate. It is requested only if you turn on the global search overlay in Settings; if you never turn that setting on, TabSlate never asks for it.
Granting it lets TabSlate register its content script on other sites at runtime, which is what allows the global search shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+K on Windows/Linux, Command+Shift+K on macOS) to open a search overlay on top of whatever page you are looking at. Turning the setting back off removes the permission and stops the content script from running anywhere.
chrome:// pages are always out of reach
Browser platform rules keep every extension, including TabSlate, from injecting scripts into internal pages such as chrome://extensions or chrome://newtab. The search overlay never appears there, regardless of whether you have granted the optional permission.
Full data-handling details
This page only summarizes what each permission is for. For the complete statement of what TabSlate collects, stores, and shares, see the Privacy Policy.
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