No more silent installation of third party extension in Google Chrome

Normally when you install a new software, sometime they silently install an extension to chrome browser. Some of this extension may be useful, however it creates overhead by covering whole browser with extension and toolbar and giving less space to view a webpage.  Sometimes third party extensions also work as malware and may harm your computer or can give unwanted ads. For example, in May, the Wikimedia Foundation issued an alert about a Google Chrome extension that was inserting rogue ads into Wikipedia pages.

So from Chrome v25, this option will be disable as told in chromium blog. Until now, it has been possible to silently install extensions into Chrome on Windows using the Windows registry mechanism for extension deployment. This feature was originally intended to allow users to opt-in to adding a useful extension to Chrome as a part of the installation of another application.

In order to prevent this type of abuse, starting with Chrome 25, the browser will automatically disable all previously installed "external" extensions and will present users with a one-time dialog box to choose which ones they want to re-enable.

In addition, all extensions that are installed using the offline methods will be disabled by default and the user will be asked if they want to enable them when the browser is restarted.

The same method was implemented by Mozilla while releasing Firefox 8.

Benefits:

• Browser will get filled up with unwanted toolbar and extensions.
• The browser performance will not be affected.
• The user will have full control on application (related to chrome) running on their system.

For windows developers it is not a sad news. . A great way to allow users to install a Chrome extension related to your Windows application is to link users to your website and use inline installation.

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