[jasonellis]

I was under the same impression. I've never developed a chrome extension, but just from following developer communities I thought I had seen complaints in the past about broad access to website data that the Chrome extension API required you to request.

Now that I look, it's probably a misunderstanding most of us have because of the lack of granularity in Chrome extension permissions: http://lifehacker.com/5990769/why-do-chrome-extensions-need-...