Next, Google on Thursday released a Chrome update that fixes what the company said was a zero-day vulnerability in the browser. A Google spokesman declined to elaborate. Messages displayed on devices that had the extension installed say only, “This extension contains malware” along with an indication that it has been removed. Google's official reason for the removal is characteristically terse. That allows Chrome to run smoothly on systems with modest resources. Since Chrome tabs are known to consume large amounts of memory, the Great Suspender temporarily suspends tabs that haven’t been opened recently. The extension has been an almost essential tool for users with small amounts of RAM on their devices. Let’s discuss them one by one.įirst up, the Great Suspender, an extension with more than 2 million downloads from the Chrome Web Store, has been pulled from Google servers and deleted from users’ computers. Users of Google’s Chrome browser have faced three security concerns over the past 24 hours in the form of a malicious extension with more than 2 million users, a just-fixed zero-day, and new information about how malware can abuse Chrome's sync feature to bypass firewalls.
