Chrome browser tests a new feature.

There is a feature in Chrome that alerts you when you install harmful extensions.

Google is experimenting with a new feature in Chrome that alerts users when an extension they've installed has been taken down from the Chrome Web Store, typically a sign that it's harmful software.

The Chrome Web Store is home to a sizable number of unwanted extensions that are advertised via pop-up advertising and redirects.

These extensions were developed by shady businesses and dangerous individuals who use them to insert adverts, monitor users' search histories, reroute them to affiliate pages, or, in the most serious situations, steal emails from Gmail and Facebook accounts.

The issue is that developers frequently release whole new extensions in response to Google removing older extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

Unfortunately, if you install one of these extensions, it will stay there even after Google flags it as potentially unwanted software and removes it from the store.

Google is currently planning to expand the safety check feature to browser add-ons, informing Chrome users when one of the add-ons is found to be harmful software or removing it from the store and instructing users to cancel their installation of the add-on from the browser.

By turning on the feature (EXTENSIONS MDULE in Safety Check for the browser), users of version 116 of Chrome can test it out before Google starts publishing it in version 117.

Simply copy the following address to enable the feature: "chrome: // Flags/#Enter Safety-Check-eXTensions in the address bar of the browser and press Enter to be taken to the Chrome Flags page with the feature (the addition of the safety examination unit) highlighted.

The (Privacy and Security) settings page will change after activation to include a new option that prompts you to examine any items that have been deleted from the Chrome electronic market.

You can access the page for your extension by clicking this link, which will direct you there and list the extensions that have been removed along with a brief explanation of why.

According to Google, extensions may be taken down from the Chrome Web Store if the creator did not publish them, they violated store regulations, or they were found to be malicious.

It is strongly advised that you remove any add-ons that have been identified as malicious right away to safeguard your data and shield your machine from additional assaults.

It is advisable to remove any programs that have already been removed for other reasons since they are no longer supported, violate other policies, and, even if they do not entirely qualify as dangerous software, may still be of little utility.

Significantly, Google has a specific policies page for the Chrome Web Store that describes the material or conduct that may result in an extension being removed from the store.