Is Chrome Backup & Restore 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: 1 match pattern.

Browser permissions

11 permissions

Privacy policy

Published in the store listing

Manifest version

V3, the current extension platform

Publisher record

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Rated by

1 people, average 5.0

What it can reach

Specific sites only: 1 match pattern.

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

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

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.