Is Windows Tab - New Tab Startpage safe to install?

What data it declares

The developer declares that it collects these kinds of data:

• Personally identifiable information such as name, address, email address or age
• Location such as region, IP address or GPS coordinates
• Web history the list of pages you visit
• User activity such as clicks, scrolling, keystrokes or network monitoring

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 links 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 your data on a number of websites
• Read a list of your most frequently visited websites
• Read and change your browsing history on all your signed-in devices
• Display notifications
• Detect your physical location
• Manage your apps, extensions, and themes
• Manage your downloads
• Read and change your bookmarks
• Read the icons of the websites you visit

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

Specific sites only: 7 match patterns.

• https://windows.co.kr/* only windows.co.kr
• https://picsum.photos/* only picsum.photos
• https://fastly.picsum.photos/* only fastly.picsum.photos
• https://img.youtube.com/* only img.youtube.com
• https://fonts.googleapis.com/* only fonts.googleapis.com
• https://fonts.gstatic.com/* only fonts.gstatic.com
• https://use.fontawesome.com/* only use.fontawesome.com

Reaches your browsing data or every site

• Read your location geolocation
• Read and change your browsing history history
• See, enable and disable your other extensions management
• See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs

Worth knowing

• Read and change your bookmarks bookmarks
• Manage your downloads downloads
• Sign you in with a Google account identity
• See the sites you visit most topSites

Routine for an extension

• Schedule work to run later alarms
• Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
• Read site icons favicon
• Show you notifications notifications
• Run searches in your default search engine search
• Store data in your browser storage
• Store data in your browser without the usual size limit unlimitedStorage

What it may ask for later

Not granted when you add it: Chrome asks you the moment the extension requests one of these, and you can refuse. It may later ask for access to every site.

• https://api.open-meteo.com/* only api.open-meteo.com
• https://geocoding-api.open-meteo.com/* only geocoding-api.open-meteo.com
• https://finnhub.io/* only finnhub.io

How usual this is for its category

In Productivity · Tools, 20% of extensions ask for access to every site. This one: Access to specific sites only.

The typical extension there declares 3 browser permissions; this one declares 15 browser permissions.

• Read your location (geolocation): under 1% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• Read and change your browsing history (history): 1% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• See, enable and disable your other extensions (management): under 1% of extensions in this category ask for it.
• See the address and title of every tab you have open (tabs): 28% 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

116 users

• Last updated in the store 91 days ago, on 2026-08-03.
• No new version in the last 90 days.

What the store shows

• Established publisher The store's badge for publishers with a good record and no history of violations.

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

windowscokrmail. This listing has been in the store since 2026-06-19 and was last updated on 2026-08-03.

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. TabOS — New Tab Reimagined No permissions at all · No permissions declared 41 users
2. TabDeck No site access · 1 permission 6 users ★ 5.0
3. Tabulo - Modular New Tab & Start Page No site access · 6 permissions 7 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 Windows Tab - New Tab Startpage access?

Specific sites only: 7 match patterns. It declares 15 browser permissions.

What data does Windows Tab - New Tab Startpage collect?

The developer declares that it collects these kinds of data: Personally identifiable information, Location, Web history, User activity. This is the developer's own declaration in the Chrome Web Store. We cannot check it against what the extension does.

Has Windows Tab - New Tab Startpage asked for more permissions over time?

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

Does Windows Tab - New Tab Startpage publish a privacy policy?

Yes, the store listing links to a privacy policy.