Dash Chrome Extension

Which permissions does the Dropbox Dash Chrome extension need?

The Dash Chrome extension lets you quickly find and organize your information from a new Chrome tab. To do this, Dash needs to ask for several permissions:

Read and change all your data on all websites

This permission allows you to quickly add any website you’re visiting to an existing or new stack. Stacks help you quickly organize and share information with others. Dash needs to ask for this broad permission as there is no way to only ask for read permissions. Rest assured that other than to display a small popup in the top-right corner, Dash won’t change data on your websites.

Learn more about stacks.

Replace the page you see when opening a new tab

With the Dash Chrome browser extension installed, you can quickly search your connected content and applications from any new tab, making it quick and easy to find the information you need without disrupting your browsing experience.

If you want to navigate to a different site, you can always enter any search or website into the browser’s search bar.

You can disable the new Dash tab by right-clicking on the Dash toolbar icon, toggling Use Dash start page off.

Read and change your browsing history on all your signed in devices

This permission powers a number of Dash features to help you find what you’re looking for. For example:

• Recents. This allows you to see websites and documents that you accessed recently.
• The Activity Feed. This surfaces documents that are being actively worked on.
• The Recommended area of stacks. This recommends documents and sites to add to a particular stack.
• The Add to stack features. It allows you to quickly add a website to a stack.
  

Dash will never change your browser history.

Read your bookmarks

Important: This is a planned feature that’s not released yet. Dropbox won't collect the information needed for this potential feature until it’s released.

Dash can make it easier for you to setup stacks by reading your bookmark folders and URLs, and creating a stack for these bookmarked links.

For example, if you have a “Recipe” bookmark with 5 recipe links, Dash will create a Stack called “Recipe” and populate that stack with the 5 recipe links.

View and manage your tab groups

Important: This is a planned feature that’s not released yet. Dropbox won't collect the information needed for this potential feature until it’s released.

Similar to bookmarks being converted to stacks, Dash can take your tab groups (and subsequent links in each group) and create a stack, so you can reference these whenever you would like.