08.11.2013 17:20 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

Google to intensify Chrome add-on lock-down in January

Google on Thursday said that starting in January, only extensions offered through its own e-market can be installed on the Windows version of Chrome.The move will be one more in a series of steps that Google has taken in the last 15 months to lock down the browser, pushing it and its add-ons toward the closed markets modeled by Apple's and Microsoft's mobile app environments.Erik Kay, director of Chrome engineering, announced the change on the Chromium blog, saying that it was driven by "our continuing security efforts," and adding, "We believe this change will help those whose browser has been compromised by unwanted extensions.Google has used similar explanations for previous steps to bar extensions from the browser.At some point in early 2014, users of the "Stable" and "Beta" builds of Chrome on Windows will be able to install extensions -- what other browser makers call "add-ons" -- only from the Chrome Web Store, Google's official distribution channel.Currently, some

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