About ChatGPT
This is OpenAI's official Chrome extension, and the natural first try if you already use ChatGPT. A side panel puts your normal ChatGPT beside the page you are reading, so you can ask about the tab in front of you. The ChatGPT desktop and web apps can also use your browser to work in your tabs, such as research on logged-in sites and data entry, without taking over your window.
OpenAI's documentation says ChatGPT asks before it uses each new website: allow once, allow for that site, allow for all sites or decline. It asks every time it wants your browser history. OpenAI says it keeps browsing data only when it becomes part of the chat, such as page text, screenshots or tool calls.
The catch is trust. The Chrome Web Store rating is a low 2.7 from about 1,100 ratings, so read recent reviews first. A consumer account may have chats used to improve OpenAI's models unless you turn off "Improve the model for everyone", and OpenAI's own docs say malicious page content can make ChatGPT copy data to the wrong place. Keep secrets out of browser tasks. We could not confirm which plans include it. It suits people already in ChatGPT who accept broad access.
Pros and cons
- Made by OpenAI, with about 8 million Chrome Web Store users
- Asks before each new site, and every time for browser history
- Brings in your ChatGPT history and plugins
- Updated on 22 October 2026
- Rated 2.7 out of 5 from about 1,100 Chrome Web Store ratings
- Very broad access: all sites, the debugger and browser history
- Tasks start from the desktop app, and availability can vary by rollout
Permissions
Asks for access to all websites, plus the debugger, tabs, history, downloads, bookmarks and native messaging. That lets it read and act on pages and talk to the desktop app, with its own per-site prompts on top.
