[jaredsohn]

My point is that what the extension requests access to is necessary for it to work, which you were disputing in your earlier message.

Sure you have to trust it, and you are generally right to be paranoid about Chrome extensions, but on the positive side, the extensions are somewhat more limited in the bad things they can do compared to non-sandboxed native desktop apps, and the source code is always available (although at times obfuscated and can be updated automatically) since they are written in JavaScript.

[dredmorbius]

Just FYI, you're confusing me an earlier poster to this thread.