# Glean

> Glean is the work assistant with intuition. Search across all your company's apps to find exactly what you need.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/glean](https://chrome-stats.com/d/glean)

## Overview

- **ID:** `glean`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Glean Work
- **Category:** search-tools
- **Daily users:** 2,530
- **Weekly downloads:** 48
- **Rating:** 2.80 / 5 (5 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2026.402.5000
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-24
- **First published:** 2021-01-27
- **Size:** 310 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/glean/)
- **Website:** [https://www.glean.com/](https://www.glean.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/glean/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/glean/privacy/)

## Description

Glean is a powerful browser extension designed to enhance workplace productivity by unlocking your company's knowledge with intelligent AI assistance. With Glean, users can quickly search across all company apps like Google Drive, Jira, Confluence, and Slack using context-aware search, ensuring you find exactly what you need. The Glean sidebar offers personalized content recommendations tailored to your current work, while an AI assistant provides instant answers based on your content and company knowledge base. A simple keyboard shortcut (Command + J or Alt + J) allows instant access to Glean, enabling quick summaries and easy navigation.

Additionally, Glean's new tab page centralizes all essential work resources, including recommended documents, notifications, and calendar events. The Go Links feature streamlines accessing complex URLs. Glean transforms how employees discover, chat, and search through company information, making knowledge instantly accessible wherever you work.

## Rankings

- #1,921 — Overall
- #224 — Search Tools
- #37 — lead
- #93 — company
- #152 — summarization
- #153 — apps

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `activeTab`
- `alarms`
- `bookmarks`
- `chrome://favicon/*`
- `contextMenus`
- `history`
- `search`
- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`

### Content script matches

- `*.askscio.com`
- `*.glean.com`
- `docs.google.com`
- `app.box.com`
- `*.asana.com`
- `*.atlassian.net`
- `*.docebosaas.com`
- `*.docusign.com`
- `drive.google.com`
- `*.dropbox.com`
- `*.force.com`
- `github.com`
- `*.highspot.com`
- `mail.google.com`
- `*.marketo.com`
- `*.mindtouch.com`
- `*.office.com`
- `*.onedrive.live.com`
- `*.quip.com`
- `*.salesforce.com`
- `*.servicenow.com`
- `*.slack.com`
- `*.stackoverflow.com`
- `teams.microsoft.com`
- `work.facebook.com`
- `*.workday.com`
- `*.zendesk.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/glean)