Is Chrome Backup & Restore safe to install?

What data it declares

The developer declares that it collects these kinds of data:

• Personally identifiable information such as name, address, email address or age
• Website content such as text, images or links on the pages you open

The developer also certifies that your data is not sold to third parties outside approved uses, not used for purposes unrelated to the extension's core function, and not used to decide creditworthiness or lending.

The listing links to a privacy policy.

This is the developer's own declaration in the Chrome Web Store. We cannot check it against what the extension does.

What Chrome asks you to allow

When you add it, Chrome asks you to allow it to:

• Read and change your data on chrome-backup-api.azd7020.workers.dev
• Read and change your bookmarks
• Manage your apps, extensions, and themes
• Read your browsing history
• View and manage your tab groups
• Read the icons of the websites you visit
• Know your email address

Derived from the manifest by Chrome's documented rules; the dialog's exact wording depends on your Chrome version and language. Chrome asks again if an update requests more.

What it can reach

Specific sites only: 1 match pattern.

• https://chrome-backup-api.azd7020.workers.dev/* only chrome-backup-api.azd7020.workers.dev

Reaches your browsing data or every site

• See, enable and disable your other extensions management
• See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs

Worth knowing

• Read and change your bookmarks bookmarks
• Sign you in with a Google account identity
• See the email address of the signed-in Google account identity.email

Routine for an extension

• Schedule work to run later alarms
• Read site icons favicon
• Store data in your browser storage
• Organise your tabs into groups tabGroups
• Store data in your browser without the usual size limit unlimitedStorage
• Declares windows

How usual this is for its category

In Productivity · Developer, 30% of extensions ask for access to every site. This one: Access to specific sites only.

The typical extension there declares 3 browser permissions; this one declares 11 browser permissions.

• See, enable and disable your other extensions (management): 1% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• See the address and title of every tab you have open (tabs): 26% of extensions in this category ask for it.

Counted over the live extensions of the same category after our latest full pass of the store. A share is context, not a verdict: what is normal depends on what the extension is for.

Who uses it and how it is kept up

599 users

• Last updated in the store 180 days ago, on 2026-05-06.
• No new version in the last 90 days.

What the store shows

• Established publisher The store's badge for publishers with a good record and no history of violations.

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.

The permissions this extension requests have not changed since we started watching it.

Who publishes it

litextools, who publishes 14 listings we track. This listing has been in the store since 2025-12-22 and was last updated on 2026-05-06.

Similar extensions that ask for less

Listings close to this one in what they say they do, which declare less reach. Less reach is not a verdict on either: compare what each needs for the job.

1. Tab Backup No site access · 1 permission 519 users
2. Save my Tabs — local tab backup No site access · 4 permissions 18 users
3. Tabiary: Auto Tab Backup & Restore No site access · 5 permissions 5 users

How to check or remove it in Chrome

1. Type chrome://extensions in the address bar and find the extension in the list.
2. Open its details. The site access setting shows where it can run; set it to run only on click and it reaches a page only after you press its icon.
3. To uninstall it, choose Remove on the same page.

Questions people ask

What can Chrome Backup & Restore access?

Specific sites only: 1 match pattern. It declares 11 browser permissions.

What data does Chrome Backup & Restore collect?

The developer declares that it collects these kinds of data: Personally identifiable information, Website content. This is the developer's own declaration in the Chrome Web Store. We cannot check it against what the extension does.

Has Chrome Backup & Restore asked for more permissions over time?

The permissions this extension requests have not changed since we started watching it.

Does Chrome Backup & Restore publish a privacy policy?

Yes, the store listing links to a privacy policy.