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Charset Switcher

Chrome extension by volsteo · Productivity · Tools

A Chrome extension in Productivity · Tools with 115 users, barely installed.

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.

What the developer says, and 1 screenshot

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Users
115
Rating
not rated yet
Users, last 16 days
+18
Version
2.0.0
Updated in the store
2026-09-12
Published
2026-04-28
Manifest
V3
Browser access
7 permissions, 2 site patterns

How it has moved

Users
+18 since 31.08
97-115 · 9 readings
2026-09-12: released 2.0.0
  1. 2026-08-3197
  2. 2026-09-02100
  3. 2026-09-04102
  4. 2026-09-06100
  5. 2026-09-07101
  6. 2026-09-08107
  7. 2026-09-09109
  8. 2026-09-13112
  9. 2026-09-15115
Users
+18 since 31.08
97-115 · 9 readings
2026-09-12: released 2.0.0
  1. 2026-08-3197
  2. 2026-09-02100
  3. 2026-09-04102
  4. 2026-09-06100
  5. 2026-09-07101
  6. 2026-09-08107
  7. 2026-09-09109
  8. 2026-09-13112
  9. 2026-09-15115

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What it can reach

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.

  • See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs
  • Block or redirect requests by rules it declares in advance declarativeNetRequest
  • Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting
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  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
  • Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
  • Show you notifications notifications
  • Store data in your browser storage

The full permission history for this extension

Version history

  1. Version 2.0.0 · Asked for more permissions (9, was 6)

What changed recently

  1. Now requires Chrome 128
  2. Package size changed
  3. Asked for more permissions (9, was 6)
Show the remaining 2
  1. Supported languages changed (6 → 12)
  2. Released version 2.0.0 (was 1.0.3)

The publisher

volsteo publishes 2 listings we track, 118 users between them.

  1. LocalQR - Offline QR Reader volsteo · Productivity · Tools · published 2026-08-15 3 users

Like this one

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  1. Charset Switcher Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 120 users
  2. CharSet Switch Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 207 users
  3. Charset Describes a similar job, with an established audience 90k users ★ 4.8
  4. MU² Web Unicode Converter Describes a similar job, smaller audience 5k users ★ 4.4
  5. Charset Describes a similar job, smaller audience 112 users

The top 5 only. The full comparison, with why each one is close, is on the alternatives page; ranking a whole neighbourhood by your own criteria is in the app.

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