CODEWITHSUNDEEP
google-chromegoogle-chrome-extension
anon
anon

Reputation:

Chrome Extension - Are content script matches limited to permissions?

I'm making a chrome extension, and was looking at my manifest.json file and realized something:

I have permissions for sites like this:

"permissions": [
    "*://*.google.com/*",
    "*://*.twitter.com/*",
]

If I use <all_urls> for my content script, will it be limited to only Google and Twitter domains? Or will it also inject the script into other websites despite not having permission?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 922

Answers (1)

Noam Hacker
Noam Hacker

Reputation: 4825

As stated here,

If your content script's code should always be injected, register it in the extension manifest using the content_scripts field. If you want to inject the code only sometimes, use the permissions field instead.

I believe all_urls will override the permissions. After testing this on one of my extensions which uses all_urls, it did in fact work on non-google/twitter domains. I then clicked on the permissions link on my extension in chrome://extensions and it told me that the extension can "read and change all your data on the websites you visit"

Upvotes: 6

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