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On January 6, 2019, Opera banned the Tampermonkey extension from being installed through the Chrome Web Store, claiming it had been identified as malicious. [7] Later, Bleeping Computer was able to determine that a piece of adware called Gom Player would install the Chrome Web Store version of Tampermonkey and likely utilize the extension to facilitate the injection of ads or other malicious ...
Internet Explorer was the first major browser to support extensions, with the release of version 4 in 1997. [1] Firefox has supported extensions since its launch in 2004. Opera and Chrome began supporting extensions in 2009, [2] and Safari did so the following year. Microsoft Edge added extension support in 2016. [3]
In July 2012, the Angular team built an extension for the Google Chrome browser called Batarang, [33] that improved the debugging experience for web applications built with Angular. The extension aimed to allow for easy detection of performance bottlenecks and offered a GUI for debugging applications. [ 34 ]
Greasemonkey is a userscript manager made available as a Mozilla Firefox extension.It enables users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to web page content after or before the page is loaded in the browser (also known as augmented browsing).
uBlock Origin (/ ˈ j uː b l ɒ k / YOO-blok [5]) is a free and open-source browser extension for content filtering, including ad blocking.The extension is available for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers (such as Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera).
A userscript (or user script) is a program, usually written in JavaScript, for modifying web pages [1] to augment browsing. Uses include adding shortcut buttons and keyboard shortcuts, controlling playback speeds, adding features to sites, and enhancing the browsing history .
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As of June 2012, there were 750 million total installs of content hosted on Chrome Web Store. [5] Some extension developers have sold their extensions to third-parties who then incorporated adware. [6] [7] In 2014, Google removed two such extensions from Chrome Web Store after many users complained about unwanted pop-up ads. [8]