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Chrome extension by Kenshin Wang · Make Chrome Yours · Functionality

A Chrome extension in Make Chrome Yours · Functionality with 5 000 users, a small but real audience.

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

What the developer says, and 5 screenshots

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Users
5 000
Rating
4.6 (181 ratings)
Users, last 16 days
unchanged
Rating, last 30 days
Not watched long enough to say
Version
1.6.0.819
Updated in the store
2026-08-26
Published
2014-08-21
Manifest
V3
Browser access
3 permissions, 1 site pattern

How it has moved

Users
unchanged since 31.08
5k · 2 readings
  1. 2026-08-315k
  2. 2026-09-155k
Rating
unchanged since 31.08
reviewsrating 4.62 · 2 readings
  1. 2026-08-31reviews181rating4.62
  2. 2026-09-15reviews181rating4.62
Users
unchanged since 31.08
5k · 2 readings
  1. 2026-08-315k
  2. 2026-09-155k
Rating
unchanged since 31.08
reviewsrating 4.62 · 2 readings
  1. 2026-08-31reviews181rating4.62
  2. 2026-09-15reviews181rating4.62

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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
  • See the sites you visit most topSites
  • Store data in your browser storage

The full permission history for this extension

What changed recently

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

The publisher

Kenshin Wang publishes 2 listings we track, 75k users between them.

  1. SimpRead - Reader View Kenshin Wang · Productivity · Workflow · published 2017-06-01 70k users ★ 4.8

Like this one

Listings the catalog judges closest in what they say they do.

  1. NewTab Wallpaper Theme Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 4 users
  2. PlainTab · Minimal New Tab Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 933 users ★ 4.9
  3. KaZeTab Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 4 users
  4. Magnum Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 47 users
  5. BestWallpaper NewTab Extension Describes nearly the same job, with an established audience 10k users ★ 4.4

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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