Posted on 01/20/2014 9:57:14 AM PST by Utilizer
...ownership of a Chrome extension can be transferred to another party, and the new owners can issue an ad-filled update over Chrome's update service, which sends the adware out to every user of that extension.
And this, my friends, is why I tell everyone “NOT” to download “Chrome”.
It doesn’t affect download speeds in any way that a user would notice and if they do notice they have never the less down loaded “Corporate Malware”.
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I disagree, but I don’t have 100 extensions like many others either. I did use Firefox but that memory hole that used up CPU’s never got fixed and Chrome is much faster since I started using it last year.
Chrome sucks because you cannot turn off the automatic updates.
I use Chrome (as well as IE). I’m a web developer.
With Chrome I use 3 extensions, AdBlock (it would be ironic if they sell to an adware group), Web Developer, and ColorZilla (for picking color ids).
Is it demosntrably faster than using a regular brower would be the question and I would argue “Not to the human experience”.
M2M, yeah.
Thanks for your reply. I’ll keep on reading up on tablet security.
The dam thing is couched with the repeated Flash updates, so a user needs to slow down on this install, otherwise Chrome gets quietly installed.
Since firefox was nuking my whole computer and dragging everything down to a crawl, I’d say yeah it is much faster. The browser may not be so much faster but my computer certainly is now.
Oh your computer is faster now.
No problem.
Seen that a lot.
What anti virus were you running when you made. the change and then noticed?
I have found AVG to compete horribly with web browsers and certain extensions.
The problem was not anti virus but Firefox using 80% of my CPU
Actually, Firefox may be at risk. Extensions, by their very nature, use Chrome as an executable mechanism. If you ever go to configure one of your extension in Firefox, for instance, you may notice the URL line starts with chrome:\\
Better safe than sorry.
Thanks for the tip. I use AdBlocker and Ghostery primarily, with only an occasional video downloader extension on FireFox but I should probably take a closer look at the last one and of course any newer ones to make certain this problem does no crop up in the future.
Being primarily a Firefox user, I am aware of several extensions, add-ons that were found to infect your computer with adware, malware. It’s not neccesssarily a Chromr issue.
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