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Malwarebytes Browser Guard Beta

Chrome extension by Malwarebytes · Productivity · Workflow

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A Chrome extension in Productivity · Workflow with 10 000 users, an established extension.

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.

What the developer says, and 5 screenshots

Loading from the Chrome Web Store. Open the listing if it does not appear.

Users
10 000
Rating
3.7 (23 ratings)
Users, last 10 days
unchanged
Rating, last 30 days
Not watched long enough to say
Version
3.3.5
Updated in the store
2026-09-03
Published
2022-08-30
Manifest
V3
Browser access
12 permissions, 1 site pattern

How it has moved

Users
unchanged since 31.08
10k · 2 readings
2026-09-04: released 3.3.5
  1. 2026-08-3110k
  2. 2026-09-0910k
Rating
unchanged since 31.08
reviewsrating 3.65 · 2 readings
2026-09-04: released 3.3.5
  1. 2026-08-31reviews23rating3.65
  2. 2026-09-09reviews23rating3.65
Users
unchanged since 31.08
10k · 2 readings
2026-09-04: released 3.3.5
  1. 2026-08-3110k
  2. 2026-09-0910k
Rating
unchanged since 31.08
reviewsrating 3.65 · 2 readings
2026-09-04: released 3.3.5
  1. 2026-08-31reviews23rating3.65
  2. 2026-09-09reviews23rating3.65

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What it can reach

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.

  • Talk to an application installed on your computer nativeMessaging
  • See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs
  • Watch the network requests your browser makes webRequest
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  • Block or redirect requests by rules it declares in advance declarativeNetRequest
  • Manage your downloads downloads
  • Sign you in with a Google account identity
  • Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting
  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
  • Schedule work to run later alarms
  • Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
  • Store data in your browser storage
  • Store data in your browser without the usual size limit unlimitedStorage

The full permission history for this extension

Version history

  1. Version 3.3.5 · Asked for fewer permissions (13, was 14)

What changed recently

  1. Package size changed
  2. Asked for fewer permissions (13, was 14)
  3. Released version 3.3.5 (was 3.3.4)

The publisher

Malwarebytes publishes 2 listings we track, 11.0M users between them. Listed website: malwarebytes.com.

  1. Malwarebytes Browser Guard Malwarebytes · Make Chrome Yours · Privacy · published 2017-12-22 11.0M users ★ 3.9

Like this one

Listings the catalog judges closest in what they say they do.

  1. Malwarebytes Browser Guard Describes nearly the same job, with a large installed audience 11.0M users ★ 3.9
  2. WebGuardie - Malware Protection Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 45 users ★ 5.0
  3. Scour Describes a similar job, smaller audience 108 users ★ 5.0
  4. AdSecure Pro Advanced Web Guardian Describes a similar job 0 users
  5. GetAdProtect Describes a similar job, smaller audience 3 users

The top 5 only. The full comparison, with why each one is close, is on the alternatives page; ranking a whole neighbourhood by your own criteria is in the app.

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Figures come from our own daily pass over the public Chrome Web Store listing, last read on . We publish no contact details for extension developers.