ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension can now use the tabs you already have open. The Verge's Stevie Bonifield reported the upgrade on October 15, 2026. OpenAI says that once the extension is installed, you can tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app and it will look at your tabs.

What it can do

OpenAI's demo, described by The Verge, shows someone asking ChatGPT to compare three open tabs of sofas. OpenAI's sample requests include filling out a registration form and stopping before submitting, copying vendors from several tabs into a comparison sheet, and comparing contractors before drafting an email to one of them.

There is also an updated sidebar. The Verge reports it brings your full ChatGPT conversation history next to the page you are reading. In ChatGPT Work, OpenAI says it can control your tabs to send messages, fill out forms, download files and group tabs.

OpenAI's own help page adds one fun extra: open a YouTube video with captions, and the sidebar can summarize it or answer questions about it.

You stay in charge, mostly

OpenAI's help page says ChatGPT asks before it uses each new website. You can allow a site once, allow it for good, block it, or allow every site. OpenAI labels that last choice elevated risk. It also says ChatGPT asks each time before it uses your browser history.

The extension asks for broad permissions when you install it, including reading and changing data on all websites. OpenAI says to treat what is on a web page as untrusted and to avoid sending secrets through browser tasks.

Not just Chrome

OpenAI's help page says the extension also works with Edge, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi. Opera has no sidebar.

What you can try

Install the ChatGPT extension, open three tabs of things you are shopping for, and ask ChatGPT to compare them. If you let it fill out a form, tell it to stop before it submits.

Source: The Verge