#chromeupdates
Originally shared by Matt Cutts
Chrome is taking a really nice change to protect users.
Starting with version 25, Chrome will disable extensions that have been silently installed. In the future, if a program tries to silently install an extension, Chrome will check whether you really want that extension.
From the blog post: "This feature was originally intended to allow users to opt-in to adding a useful extension to Chrome as a part of the installation of another application. Unfortunately, this feature has been widely abused by third parties to silently install extensions into Chrome without proper acknowledgment from users."
Now when a program tries to install an extension without you realizing it, you'll get a heads-up from Chrome so that you can decide whether you really want that extension.
http://blog.chromium.org/2012/12/no-more-silent-extension-installs.html
Originally shared by Matt Cutts
Chrome is taking a really nice change to protect users.
Starting with version 25, Chrome will disable extensions that have been silently installed. In the future, if a program tries to silently install an extension, Chrome will check whether you really want that extension.
From the blog post: "This feature was originally intended to allow users to opt-in to adding a useful extension to Chrome as a part of the installation of another application. Unfortunately, this feature has been widely abused by third parties to silently install extensions into Chrome without proper acknowledgment from users."
Now when a program tries to install an extension without you realizing it, you'll get a heads-up from Chrome so that you can decide whether you really want that extension.
http://blog.chromium.org/2012/12/no-more-silent-extension-installs.html
Excellent. The number of sneaky extensions is way, way too high.
ReplyDeleteThis will save me hours of uninstalling unwanted sites from the school computers. Some cannot be uninstalled.
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