For years, Google and Mozilla have battled to keep abusive or outright malicious browser extensions from infiltrating their official repositories. Now, Microsoft is taking up the fight. Over the past ...

In December, Ars reported that as many as 3 million people had been infected by Chrome and Edge browser extensions that stole personal data and redirected users to ad or phishing sites. Now, the ...

With Google's recent flagging of the popular Save as Image Type Chrome extension, now is a good time to take stock of all ...

Microsoft's new Edge browser is now available and it comes with an add-on store where you can find Microsoft-approved extensions. As Edge is built on the same Chromium code base, it can also access ...

Microsoft Edge has developed into a robust and effective browser since its debut back in 2015. And that's especially true since it moved to Chromium a couple of years ago. But any browser can use a ...

On Windows and MacOS, Google Chrome’s bread and butter is extensions. They round out the user experience, and each user finds a different arsenal of add-ons useful. That feature never made it to ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Google delisted the image conversion tool earlier this month, but not before it had likely been modifying thousands of users' ...