# WebChatGPT: ChatGPT with internet access

> Augment your ChatGPT prompts with relevant web search results through web browsing.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `web-chatgpt`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Extensions Hub
- **Category:** search-tools,appearance
- **Daily users:** 7,109
- **Weekly downloads:** 88
- **Rating:** 3.66 / 5 (107 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.1.60
- **Last updated:** 2025-04-03
- **First published:** 2023-01-05
- **Size:** 3.04 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/web-chatgpt/)
- **Website:** [https://discord.gg/5UaTKKV3tM](https://discord.gg/5UaTKKV3tM)

## Description

WebChatGPT is a free Chrome extension that empowers your ChatGPT experience by integrating relevant web search results directly into your prompts. It enables ChatGPT to access the internet, delivering more accurate and current conversations with up-to-date information sourced from live web browsing.

Key features include fetching web search results, extracting webpage text from any URL, and utilizing customizable prompt templates. Unlike ChatGPT Plus's built-in browsing, WebChatGPT is faster, lightweight, and available to both Free and Plus users without backend servers, operating entirely within your browser. Privacy-conscious users will appreciate that it collects no personal data and is fully open source.

Ideal for users needing dynamic and precise answers reflecting the latest information, WebChatGPT is continuously evolving with upcoming support for multiple search engines and advanced conversational web browsing capabilities.

## Rankings

- #947 — Overall
- #103 — Search Tools
- #145 — Appearance
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- #5 — gpt4

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `*://*/*`
- `declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess`

### Content script matches

- `chat.openai.com`
- `chatgpt.com`
- `claude.ai`
- `bard.google.com`
- `gemini.google.com`
- `www.google.com`
- `www.perplexity.ai`
- `www.baidu.com`
- `www.bing.com`
- `cn.bing.com`
- `app.maxai.me`
- `www.maxai.co`
- `<all_urls>`
- `www.sogou.com`
- `duckduckgo.com`
- `search.yahoo.com`
- `search.naver.com`
- `yandex.com`
- `wap.yandex.com`
- `search.brave.com`
- `www.reddit.com`
- `twitter.com`
- `www.youtube.com`
- `www.amazon.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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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## Review summary

Users report the add-on was valuable for web-backed, up-to-date answers and is liked when functional. However, many say it is now broken or unusable on Firefox (including sign-in failures), and several note a change in ownership to MaxAI.me that brought redirects/prompts and a lack of Firefox updates. A few users still praise it when it works.

### Pros

- Generally praised as a useful/good extension when it works (multiple users)
- Provides more up-to-date/web-backed responses compared with offline ChatGPT (mentioned by users)

### Cons

- Extension is reported broken or unusable on Firefox (can't open, no input box, ChatGPT/Bing/Bard not working)
- Cannot sign in on Firefox (multiple reports)
- Ownership change / MaxAI.me takeover reported — users see MaxAI.me prompts, lack of Firefox updates and reduced support

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