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Thursday, 4 February 2021

Google disables Great Suspender extension, says it 'contains malware'

Google disables Great Suspender extension, says it 'contains malware'

The Great Suspender just got expelled. 

Users of the popular tab-management extension for Chrome were greeted with an unwelcome message from Google Thursday, alerting them to the fact that their beloved add-on may have had ulterior motives. Specifically, Chrome warned that the Great Suspender "contains malware."

The message was accompanied by a semi-cleaving of the extension from Chrome, and a loss of all of users' suspended tabs along with it. 

Poof.

Poof.

Image: screenshot / chrome

We reached out to Google, which owns the Chrome browser, for details on the supposed malware but received no immediate response.  Read more...

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