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QueenNini
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Feb 28, 2020
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Chrome extensions warning

Why is there a warning message in the chrome web store to Google recommends switching to Chrome to use extensions securely. https://www.google.com/chrome?brand=GGRF&utm_campaign=ww&utm_source=ww-cw...
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    HotCakeX
    Feb 28, 2020

    Because google is incompetent and dirty, question is, what Microsoft is going to do about google's bad behavior, because it is misleading users that are not tech savvy.

     

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HotCakeX
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Mar 10, 2020

QueenNini 

 

Update:

Google removes banner dissuading Edge users from running Chrome extensions.

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Eric_Lawrence
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Mar 10, 2020
The stated explanation behind the original warning was that Chrome didn't realize that MSEdge maintained the ability to revoke extensions later discovered to be malicious. They didn't realize this because MSEdge does not hit Google's SafeBrowsing service for revocation information, but instead queries Microsoft's servers, which cache revocation information retrieved directly from SafeBrowsing.

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