Fact · Dictation in your apps
Chrome's developer guide says the activeTab permission does not display a permission warning, because it grants only temporary access to the site the user is on.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“This permission does not display a permission warning. It grants temporary host permission to the site the user is on.”
Permission warning guidelines, Google Chrome for Developers, 2024, Use the "activeTab" permission.
Open the original- What it measures
- Chrome shows install warnings for many extension permissions. The guide notes that activeTab is one that does not, so an extension can run on a page only after you invoke it.
- What it does not show
- The absence of a warning does not make an extension private or safe. An extension can request broader permissions, which do trigger warnings, and its privacy policy still decides what it does with your text.