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recetly has been blocked by google if you have lots of inaccessible chrome tabs disabled by the great suspender chrome extension, this will explain how to recover this video will show you how to remove the the great suspender malware from your computer. Google chrome extension the great suspender contains malware and has been removed from your browser and also the the great suspender, is an extension that automatically shut down tabs you weren't using.

#Tab suspender malware free#

Warning The Great Suspender Contains Malware! Free Alternative! the tool would automatically shut down tabs that you hadn’t looked.

the great suspender was a hugely useful extension - minus the malware, at least - for keeping your browser running smoothly.

since november of 2020, close followers of the.

if you're one of many who loved the great suspender extension, then we have bad news: it's probably malware.

'the great suspender' extension is now flagged as malware, but microsoft edge has a built in replacement by sean endicott last updated februa once great extension is now accused.

Webhere’s the longer story: the great suspender has a new maintainer (formerly dean oemcke), and this unknown entity dropped a few silent updates to new builds of the extension allowing it to.

first, before you try out any alternatives, make sure you use the great suspender to “unsuspe nd” all of your open tabs before you remove the extension from your browser.

Both are almost exactly the same as Chrome, right down to handling Google Docs properly, but use up a lot less RAM. Before installing an extension, check its user ratings in the Chrome Web Store to see if anyone mentions suspicious behavior.Īnd if you're worried about Chrome taking up too much memory, try using Brave or Edge instead. To avoid having malicious Chrome extensions in your browser, use only those extensions you absolutely need and disable the rest in chrome://extensions/. Google has gotten better about policing the Chrome Web Store, but it still has a long way to go. Far worse are Chrome extensions that spy on users, inject ads and even steal saved information from Day One, a problem that dates back years. This isn't the first time a decent Chrome extension has been hijacked by crooks. The extension's original creator has posted instructions on GitHub on how to recover them (opens in new tab). Such users lost all their open tabs when The Great Suspender disappeared. "That's the only extension that makes Chrome bearable with as many tabs as I have open." "Chrome just disabled The Great Suspender saying that it is malware," wrote TechDirt editor Mike Masnick on Twitter. "Is there any way to bypass this? Literally the only reason I still use chrome is because this and session buddy."

"Is anyone else using the great suspender? Chrome just closed all my tabs and told me it's malware," wrote Reddit user shez33 (opens in new tab). The sudden removal of the extension didn't sit well with users of The Great Suspender, many of whom apparently didn't know about the malware dangers. The page returns a 404 "page not found" error. We can't verify if that image is real, but it's pretty certain that The Great Suspender is gone from the Chrome Web Store. One Reddit user put up a screen grab of a browser notification (opens in new tab) that informed him that "this extension may be dangerous" and that "'The Great Suspender' has been disabled because it contains malware."

4), Google apparently took The Great Suspender's Chrome Web Store page (opens in new tab) down and actively removed it from Chrome users' browsers.