---
title: "Google Gemini Open SideBar in Chrome – Chrome extension stats, history and permissions"
description: "7,000 users, rated 4.60 by 150 people. Version 0.0.1, updated 2025-01-14. Requests 6 permissions."
url: "https://extensiontracker.com/extension/pkbpolgldicmginnpdniepiknhanlkid"
---

# Google Gemini Open SideBar in Chrome

Live in the Chrome Web Store.

- Users: 7,000
- Rating: 4.60 from 150 ratings
- Last checked: 2026-09-27 07:36 UTC
- Users gained in 7 days: – (needs a week of history)
- Users gained in 30 days: – (needs a month of history)
- Rank by users: #8,855 of 264,703 live extensions
- Rank in Accessibility: #531 of 7,982

## The listing

What the Chrome Web Store shows, as of the last check.

Summary from the listing:

> Google Gemini Extensions For Chrome. Google Gemini New AI and Open SideBar in Chrome

- Extension ID: `pkbpolgldicmginnpdniepiknhanlkid`
- Developer: [SideBar Extensions](https://extensiontracker.com/developer/u70afa6fbc3f9d0bcdbdba619561308f6)
- Trader status: Not declared a trader under EU law
- Category: [Make Chrome Yours › Accessibility](https://extensiontracker.com/category/make_chrome_yours/accessibility)
- First published: 2025-01-14
- Last updated: 2025-01-14
- Version: `0.0.1`
- Size: 1.69 MiB
- Minimum Chrome: 88
- Languages (3): English, English (United Kingdom), English (United States)
- Chrome Web Store: <https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-gemini-open-sideba/pkbpolgldicmginnpdniepiknhanlkid>
- View the code or download the CRX, in CRX Viewer: <https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fchromewebstore.google.com%2Fdetail%2Fpkbpolgldicmginnpdniepiknhanlkid>

## Users over time

One row per check, newest first, as shown on the Chrome Web Store.

| Checked | Users | Rating | Ratings |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 2026-09-27 | 7,000 | 4.60 | 150 |

## What changed

Every change found on a check, newest first.

No changes found since tracking began on 2026-09-27.

## What it can access

From the extension's manifest, in plain language.

### Browser features

- `commands`: Add keyboard shortcuts
- `declarativeNetRequest`: Block or change network requests, using rules
- `declarativeNetRequestFeedback`: See which of its network rules matched
- `sidePanel`: Show a side panel
- `storage`: Save settings and data in your browser
- `unlimitedStorage`: Store more data than the usual limit

### Asked for later, if you agree

- `http://gemini.google.com/*`: gemini.google.com
- `https://gemini.google.com/*`: gemini.google.com

## More from this developer

Other extensions from the same publisher account.

| Extension | Users | Rating | Ratings | Category |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
| [Google Translate Open SideBar in Chrome](https://extensiontracker.com/extension/cohpinkfmhmlhcaomhhencmebcjnldci) | 764 | 4.71 | 14 | Accessibility |

All 2 extensions by [SideBar Extensions](https://extensiontracker.com/developer/u70afa6fbc3f9d0bcdbdba619561308f6).

## About this data

Collected from the extension's public Chrome Web Store listing. It's checked every week, because it has 1,000 or more users, and again whenever a new version appears. Last checked 2026-09-27 07:36 UTC; next check around 2026-10-01.

How the data is collected: <https://extensiontracker.com/methodology>.

## Cite this page

Extension Tracker. “Google Gemini Open SideBar in Chrome” (pkbpolgldicmginnpdniepiknhanlkid). Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-09-27. https://extensiontracker.com/extension/pkbpolgldicmginnpdniepiknhanlkid. Accessed 2026-09-28.

```bibtex
@misc{extensiontracker_pkbpolgldicmginnpdniepiknhanlkid,
  title   = {Google Gemini Open SideBar in Chrome (pkbpolgldicmginnpdniepiknhanlkid)},
  author  = {{Extension Tracker}},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-09-27},
  url     = {https://extensiontracker.com/extension/pkbpolgldicmginnpdniepiknhanlkid},
  urldate = {2026-09-28}
}
```

---

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