Actions
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Twenty-nine actions ship built in. Twenty-six of them need no permission beyond what the extension already has. The three that do are marked, and the permission is requested only when you bind that particular action.
Tabs
| Action | What it does | Extra permission |
|---|---|---|
| New tab | Opens a new tab. | — |
| Close current tab | Closes the tab you are on. | — |
| Reopen closed tab | Restores the most recently closed session — usually a tab, but a whole window if that is what you closed last. | sessions |
| Duplicate tab | Opens a copy of the current tab. | — |
| Pin / unpin tab | Toggles the pinned state. | — |
| Mute / unmute tab | Toggles audio for the tab. | — |
| Reload tab | Reloads normally. | — |
| Hard reload (no cache) | Reloads bypassing the cache. | — |
| Next tab / Previous tab | Moves one tab along, wrapping at the ends. | — |
| First tab / Last tab | Jumps to either end of the strip. | — |
| Move tab left / right | Moves the tab itself, not the selection. | — |
| Close other tabs | Closes every unpinned tab except this one. Pinned tabs are left alone. | — |
| Close tabs to the right | Closes the unpinned tabs after this one. | — |
| Copy current URL | Puts the tab's URL on the clipboard. | tabs |
| Move tab to new window | Pulls the tab out into its own window. | — |
Windows
| Action | What it does | Extra permission |
|---|---|---|
| New window | Opens an empty window. | — |
| New incognito window | Opens a private window. | — |
Navigation and zoom
| Action | What it does | Extra permission |
|---|---|---|
| Go back / Go forward | Moves through this tab's history. | — |
| Scroll to top / bottom | Smoothly scrolls the page window to either end. Pages that scroll inside their own container rather than the window (many web apps do) are not affected. | — |
| Zoom in / Zoom out / Reset zoom | Changes page zoom for the current site. | — |
Other
| Action | What it does | Extra permission |
|---|---|---|
| Bookmark this page | Saves the current page to your bookmarks. | bookmarks, tabs |
| Open a URL… | Opens an address you specify when creating the shortcut. This is the only action that takes an argument. | — |
What "extra permission" means here
The column above is about additional API permissions. Most of these actions operate on the tab you are already looking at, which Chrome allows without granting access to your tab list or your history — so only three need anything extra, and binding none of them means none are ever requested.
Separately from that, every one of the 29 needs access to websites, because the only way a key press reaches the extension is through code running on the page. That is one prompt, asked once, and revocable. See permissions.