Last updated on December 8th, 2022 at 02:48 pm
To date, neither Google nor the new owner of The Great Suspender has released any statements regarding the incident.
Google began blocking the popular The Great Suspender extension from working in the Chrome browser and removed it from the Chrome Web Store. Extension users received a notification that The Great Suspender contains malware.
Google Chrome has blocked the trendy extension The Great Suspender
The Great Suspender extension allowed to “suspend” inactive Chrome tabs, with which the user has not been working for a while, replacing them with a blank gray screen. Everyone knows that Chrome is resource-intensive, which is why the extension has become extremely popular in a relatively short time.
This open-source extension was sold at the end of last year to an unknown company that added an exploit to execute any code without your knowledge, which is why the extension has already been removed from the Microsoft Edge browser. Still, until then, it was available in Chrome.
So far, neither Google nor the new owner of The Great Suspender has released any statements regarding the incident.
