On Christmas Eve, developers at data detection and response firm Cyberhaven received a troubling email that seemed to come from Google, threatening to remove access to the company's Chrome extension ...

Adware vendors are purchasing Chrome extensions from their creators and using the software to push adware and malware to users. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Now's the time to start trying to build Chrome extensions, Google says. But some sophisticated Web page features coming with HTML 5 will have to wait longer. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer ...

Google is developing a "desktop" version of Chrome for Android, primarily intended for future Chrome OS integration, that will support browser extensions, unlike the current mobile Chrome version.

LinkedIn is facing two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browsers to determine which extensions they’re running. Two class action complaints were filed by different law firms on behalf of ...

As the most popular browser by far, there are tons of extensions that let you customize and tweak Google Chrome to your heart’s content. However, a security researcher has discovered dozens of ...

Firefox lets developers create keyboard shortcuts for their extension's functions, which are hard coded or possibly configurable depending on the extension. In Firefox 66, Mozila is making extension ...