Is Browser Redirection Extension safe to install?

What data it declares

The developer declares that it does not collect or use your data.

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 does not link 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 all your data on all websites
• Block content on any page
• Read your browsing history
• Communicate with cooperating native applications
• Read and change your bookmarks

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

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open. What access to every site means

Reaches your browsing data or every site

• Read and change cookies on the sites it can access cookies
• 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

Worth knowing

• 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 when you navigate between pages webNavigation

Routine for an extension

• Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
• Schedule work to run later alarms
• Store data in your browser storage
• Read your display setup system.display

Pages it runs its code on

It runs its own code on every page you open: the manifest declares a content script for all sites.

• http://*/* every site
• https://*/* every site
• *://*/*bcrFallback=bcrFallback*

A content script is code the extension injects into pages matching these patterns. On those pages it can read and change what you see, whether or not a host permission is listed above.

Sites that can connect to it

Any web page can open a messaging channel to this extension; the manifest allows every site.

• <all_urls> every site

Declared as externally connectable in the manifest: a page on these sites can exchange messages with the extension, for example to tell it you have signed in. It does not give the page access to your browser.

How usual this is for its category

In Productivity · Workflow, 19% of extensions ask for access to every site. This one: Access to every site.

The typical extension there declares 3 browser permissions; this one declares 12 browser permissions.

• Read and change cookies on the sites it can access (cookies): 6% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• Talk to an application installed on your computer (nativeMessaging): 2% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• See the address and title of every tab you have open (tabs): 33% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• Watch the network requests your browser makes (webRequest): 3% 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

1.0M users

• Last updated in the store 139 days ago, on 2026-06-20.
• No new version in the last 90 days.

What the store shows

• Trader The publisher has declared itself a trader under EU rules.

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

Citrix Systems Inc., who publishes 3 listings we track. This listing has been in the store since 2018-09-11 and was last updated on 2026-06-20.

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. CTX Launcher for Managed Guest Sessions No site access · 1 permission 7k users
2. HD BrowserRedirection Extension No site access · 3 permissions 189 users
3. Rangee - Browser Redirection Extension No site access · 3 permissions 520 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 Browser Redirection Extension access?

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open. It declares 12 browser permissions.

What data does Browser Redirection Extension collect?

The developer declares that it does not collect or use your data. This is the developer's own declaration in the Chrome Web Store. We cannot check it against what the extension does.

Has Browser Redirection Extension asked for more permissions over time?

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

Does Browser Redirection Extension publish a privacy policy?

No, the store listing does not link to a privacy policy.