Google Announces 5 Specifications to Improve Chrome Extension Security
The Chrome extension dramatically enriches our online experience and delivers a more personalised look, feel, and efficiency experience. Recently, Google launched a new round of crackdowns to prevent extensions from gaining access beyond the reasonable range. On Monday, Google announced a series of extension specifications to ensure further specification and management of extensions.
These new extensions are new changes included in Chrome 70 and are scheduled to be released later this month to make extensions more secure, including:
- User controls for host permissions
Google allows users to restrict extensions to certain websites. Also, the user can also set a license to request the extension to be queried for each run.
- Changes to the extensions review process
Google will rigorously regulate extensions that need to call energy outside of the browser, and reject extensions that are confusing to the underlying programming code to make it difficult to read. - New code reliability requirements
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Required 2-step verification
Google requires extension developers to use two-step authentication in 2019 to make it more difficult for some people to hijack the account to distribute the wrong version of the extension.
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Looking ahead: Manifest v3James Wagner, product manager for Chrome Extensions, says that users can be confident that the extensions they install are secure, privacy-protected, and efficient.
