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Chrome extension by nex · Productivity · Workflow

A Chrome extension in Productivity · Workflow with 4 000 users, a small but real audience. Audience over the last 30 days: unchanged.

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

What the developer says, and 4 screenshots

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Users: 4 000
Rating: 4.8 (26 ratings)
Users, last 30 days: Unchanged (the store rounds this count to 1 000, so it moves only between steps)
Rating, last 30 days: Steady over 30 days
Version: 0.400
Updated in the store: 2024-09-11
Published: 2019-11-17
Manifest: V3
Browser access: 3 permissions

How it has moved

Last 30 daysLast 90 days

Users

unchanged since 03.10

4k · 1 reading

2026-11-024k

Rating

unchanged since 03.10

reviewsrating 4.85 · 1 reading

2026-11-02reviews26rating4.85

Users

unchanged since 31.08

4k · 2 readings

2026-08-314k
2026-11-024k

Rating

unchanged since 31.08

reviewsrating 4.85 · 2 readings

2026-08-31reviews26rating4.85
2026-11-02reviews26rating4.85

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What it can reach

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting
Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
Run searches in your default search engine search

The full permission history for this extension

What changed recently

Nothing has moved on this listing since we started watching it.

The publisher

nex publishes 4 listings we track, 4k users between them.

chrome.sessions.restore() by a message nex · Productivity · Developer · published 2022-01-16 377 users ★ 5.0
restore sessions for crxMouseGesture nex · Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility · published 2022-01-17 20 users
tab grep (beta) nex · Productivity · Tools · published 2024-08-14 12 users

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