Legitimate browser extensions were turned bad through malicious updates
a number of popular extensions that enable things like dark mode and adblocking in Google’s browser have been hijacked by hackers, putting 3.2 million Chrome users at risk.
While all of the extensions listed below have since been removed from the Chrome Web Store, you will still need to manually delete them if they’re currently installed in your browser
I had the “Page Refresh” one… disabled, but still installed. There are multiple “[Auto] [Easy] Page/Tab Refresh/Reload” extensions in the store, hard to pick one that won’t go rogue.
A lot harder to do when it’s not on your computer. At work we have some TVs displaying a web oage full screen. I’m not gonna vnc in just to hit F5 every 30 minutes.
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I had the “Page Refresh” one… disabled, but still installed. There are multiple “[Auto] [Easy] Page/Tab Refresh/Reload” extensions in the store, hard to pick one that won’t go rogue.
“Page refresh”. You mean F5 (or ctrl + r) right?
Yes, every 30 seconds, for hours on end.
Useful for many things, starting with CI/CD status panels.
A lot harder to do when it’s not on your computer. At work we have some TVs displaying a web oage full screen. I’m not gonna vnc in just to hit F5 every 30 minutes.
You can set the webpage to self refresh on interval by itself no extensions needed.
We already have it for every 20 minutes but sometimes it fails for various reasons. 30 minutes is the backup before I just reboot it.