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by halpert 1639 days ago
They can. Look up native messaging ports.
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that doesn't let you launch processes, it lets you interact with running ones. even if the chrome extensions could launch new processes, they run inside Untrusted integrity level on Windows, you can verify this at chrome:sandbox and checking the Chrome task manager (shift+esc). You cannot interact with processes above your own integrity level nor launch processes with an integrity level higher than your current.