PluginStats
Norton Safe Search users statistics
Search safely online by enabling Norton Safe Search as your default search provider for maximum protection on Chrome.
Norton Safe Search has approximately 5,000,000 recorded users on Chrome Web Store.
It ranks #21 of 1,556 tracked Chrome Web Store listings by users.
It is rated 2.6 out of 5 from 373 ratings.
PluginStats has 1 daily observations since Oct 18, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 2.60 / 5 from 373 ratings
About Norton Safe Search
Search safely online by enabling Norton Safe Search as your default search provider for maximum protection on Chrome.
Norton Safe Search helps protect you from identity thieves and online scams by warning you of dangerous sites when you search, shop or browse online.
Norton Safe Search provides you added peace of mind by showing site safety ratings when a search by showing,
1. If the site is Trusted
2. If you should exercise additional caution
3. If the site is known to be malicious, which should be avoided.
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This extension uses permissions that produce the following Chrome messages to perform necessary functions within the extension.
“Read your browsing history” Shown for permissions needed for creation and management of tabs and information from the extension’s installation page.
“This extension can read and change your data on sites. You can control which sites the extension can access.” Shown for permissions needed for exchange of configuration information for performing safety markup on search results.
“Change your search settings to: searchsafe.norton.com” Shown for permissions needed for delivery of search results through the Norton Safe Search service.
This extension also uses permissions that are not displayed in Chrome for performing certain functions within the extension:
“webRequest” permission Used to obtain search terms from the omnibar/address bar.
“webRequestBlocking” permission Used to add data needed to perform safety markup on search results.
“storage” permission Used to store and retrieve settings data used by the extension.
--- By using this add-on, you agree to our License and Services Agreement (https://www.nortonlifelock.com/content/dam/nortonlifelock/pdfs/eulas/licensing-agreement/customer-agreement-en.pdf) and have read and acknowledge our Global Privacy Statement (https://www.nortonlifelock.com/us/en/privacy/global-privacy-statement/).
This add-on makes use of Google Analytics’s Measurement Protocol to transmit critical error and feature usage information to Google Analytics services. NortonLifeLock uses Google Analytics services to maintain and improve this add-on, but the services are not operated by NortonLifeLock.
If you do not consent to this data collection and usage, please do not install this add-on or remove it if it is already installed.
This add-on sets parameters that Google provides to obfuscate your IP address when processing Google Analytics. See more details here for our obligations to use Google Analytics, Google’s privacy practices, and Google's IP obfuscation support:
- https://developers.google.com/analytics/policy - https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 - https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052
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Description from the Chrome Web Store listing.
Where Norton Safe Search sits in the listing
Each band is one page of 20. Users on a log scale. Placement is projected from users, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.
Charts
Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark
Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Ranking history
Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.
Recent observations
Full history (1)Similar Chrome Web Store Tools plugins
Data source
User counts are read from public Chrome Web Store listing pages. Google displays rounded user counts (and caps the display at 10,000,000+), so small changes may not be visible. Rating counts above 1,000 are rounded (e.g. 1.6K).
Listing: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/norton-safe-search/mpnlkmlkncncpgnnkmkgoobfpnjmblnk. First seen Oct 18, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.