A researcher discovered that hundreds of extensions in the Web Store were part of a long-running malvertising and ad-fraud scheme.

Google has moved to shore up security around its Chrome browser after the company added a setting to prevent extensions that are not hosted in the Chrome Web Store from installing in browsers ...

Google is clearly eager to avoid those disasters in Chrome -- it's instituting a new Chrome Web Store policy that will limit extensions to a single purpose.

If you like getting your Chrome extensions inline directly from a website, those days are numbered: soon, you'll have to get your extensions from the Chrome Web Store exclusively.

If you want to install Chrome extensions, Google's Chrome Web Store soon will be the only place to get them. Extensions -- the software that lets you do things like block ads, manage your tabs ...

New extensions published starting today will no longer be able to call on inline installation and will, instead, redirect to the Chrome Web Store. Starting 12th September, that will be the case ...

Search for many popular extensions on the Chrome Web Store and you’ll see misleading and potentially malicious apps first. Google’s Chrome Web Store always lists apps before extensions, and ...

After warning Chrome users in November, Google has begun blocking non-Chrome Web Store extensions from being installed on Chrome for Windows.

Google announced today new rules for the Chrome Web Store in an attempt to cut down the number of shady Chrome extensions submitted and listed on the site. The browser maker says that due to ...

Google today announced the latest set of policy changes to limit extensions abuse. This includes requiring 2FA for Chrome Web Store devs ...

Learn how to download and save Chrome extension as CRX. This guide explains how to extract an extension from the Chrome Web Store and then how to install it using the Manual installer.