Is Glancely: New Tab, AI Chat & Focus Mode safe to install?

The facts we can check

No score. A single number would compress incomparable things and imply we had weighed them: an ad blocker needs every page and a theme needs nothing, and one figure would be wrong about both.

Site access

Specific sites only: 4 match patterns.

Browser permissions

12 permissions

Privacy policy

Published in the store listing

Manifest version

V3, the current extension platform

Rated by

8 people, average 5.0

What it can reach

Specific sites only: 4 match patterns.

• https://api.openai.com/*
• https://api.anthropic.com/*
• https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/*
• https://api.perplexity.ai/*

• Read and change your browsing history history
• See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs
• Read and change your bookmarks bookmarks
• Block or redirect requests by rules it declares in advance declarativeNetRequest
• See and restore recently closed tabs sessions
• See the sites you visit most topSites
• Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
• Schedule work to run later alarms
• Show you notifications notifications
• Run searches in your default search engine search
• Store data in your browser storage
• Store data in your browser without the usual size limit unlimitedStorage

Has it asked for more over time?

This is the question a permission list on its own cannot answer. An extension that shipped narrow and widened later is a different proposition from one that always asked for the same thing.

1. 2026-09-04Asked for more permissions (16, was 10)

Versions we have seen

1. 2026-09-04Version 2.6.4 · Asked for more permissions (16, was 10)

Who publishes it

New ChatGPT Tab for Chrome, who publishes 7 listings we track. This listing has been in the store since 2023-02-19 and was last updated on 2026-09-04.