A fake Microsoft Authenticator extension appeared in the Chrome Web Store. The extension was available for almost a month before it was taken down. The fake extension prompted people to fill out ...

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When I heard that Mozilla would be outlining their own open web app ecosystem for the first time today, my immediate thought was that this was to pre-empt the Chrome Web Store. I still think that, but ...

As account security has become more important, having a good cross-platform password manager has become almost essential. Unfortunately, one of the more popular password managers, Dashlane, has had ...

While Firefox prepares to bring full-fledged extensions to mobile, Chrome is getting an extension update of its own. Starting with version 117, which is now available in the Beta channel, Google‘s web ...

Google has removed a Chrome extension from the official Web Store yesterday for secretly hijacking search engine queries and redirecting users to ad-infested search results. The extension's name was ...

An accidental outage was caused by LastPass yesterday by mistakenly removing the LastPass extension from the Chrome Web Store, leading to users seeing 404 errors when trying to download and install it ...

Over the past few years, Google has worked to clean up, boost privacy, and increase security on the Chrome Web Store. The latest effort introduces badges in the Chrome Web Store to better highlight ...