Two new reports reveal distinctly different opinions about the safety of Chrome browser extensions. Google says that less than 1% of all installs include malware, while university researchers say 280 ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Google Chrome is testing a new feature that ...

A long-running malware operation known as "ShadyPanda" has amassed over 4.3 million installations of seemingly legitimate Chrome and Edge browser extensions that evolved into malware. The operation, ...

Extensions are plug-ins that give your web browser superpowers - or at the very least, capabilities it didn’t have right out of the box. But the way extensions are built and distributed also makes ...

Google's Chrome Web Store is now warning that the uBlock Origin ad blocker and other extensions may soon be blocked as part of the company's deprecation of the Manifest V2 extension specification.