#Great tab suspender extension install
#Great tab suspender extension code
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#Great tab suspender extension windows

Ever since Chrome 87 has made significant improvements to performance and memory management, Google released their popular Tab Groups feature and even added freezing and collapsing capabilities to them, tab management extensions have drastically fallen in popularity. We probably won’t find out whether or not The Great Suspender was actually compromised or simply mishandled, but what is clear is that many Chrome users have already moved on. Needless to say, we’re all becoming quite weary of these types of situations and it needs to stop. All of this comes as 15 Chrome extensions were recently found to be abusing their userbase and stealing their data.

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Google recently declared war on the free reign that extensions have had on user data and has a plan for 2021 to force developers to be more transparent by issuing a ‘seal of approval’ for those that follow strict guidelines about how they’re utilizing a user’s data.

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The concern here is that while this mysterious new owner is just using additional tracking for analytics in the extension, it could potentially be used for malicious intent, especially since it’s using suspicious code from other suspicious extensions. He said he suspects the owner intends to wait for the online controversy to die down and then subvert the code through further changes. The Register interviewed a developer named Josh Manders from Primacloud, a CRM and reporting company, and he stated that as he dug into the source code of The Great Suspender, numerous links to other extensions that had been purchased from developers and repurposed as malware were present within. Some users claim that these two versions of The Great Suspender include code that’s consistent with malware or crypto mining extensions! Wait, what? Okay, slow down here for a second – is this popular and well-known extension stealing user data? Well, it’s we can’t know for sure since no malicious behavior has been detected so far, but the fact that these analytics tools and scripts have even been injected into the extension and since it was pushed to user’s devices automatically, still makes it suspicious. In English, this means that without a user’s consent, their data may have been siphoned out from under their noses. Read our privacy policy and disclaimer.Worse still is that after several experienced users did some digging in those version’s code they found that The Great Suspender was utilizing something pretending to be Open Web Analytics (OWA) (used for tracking) and remote scripts that would be run via a content delivery network (CDN). If you find this tiny extension useful, consider rating it 5🌟 on Chrome Web Store & Firefox AMO, and share it with your friends.

#Great tab suspender extension windows

Users can choose to suspend tabs either in all open windows including active window, or just in the other windows.īy suspending other tabs, you can clear up memory and boost performance of your browser instantly. This extension helps users to manually suspend all open tabs except the current tab.

#Great tab suspender extension install

If you are using other Chromium-based browsers, like Microsoft Edge Preview, Opera, Brave, Yandex etc., you should be able to install and use it from Chrome Web Store. Install it from Google Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Firefox AMO store. It enables you to manually discard all open tabs except the current one. The Tab Suspender is an extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and other supported web browsers.

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