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Is it not possible to right click the extension in chrome://apps or the button in the toolbar and select "Remove from Chrome..."? I previously had Stayfocusd a
by applecrazy 9y ago
Is it not possible to right click the extension in chrome://apps or the button in the toolbar and select "Remove from Chrome..."?
I previously had Stayfocusd and I blocked myself from uninstalling the extension (as a test) by blocking chrome://extensions, but then found a loophole using the method above.
Edit: Confirmed. What this article talks about is a total non-issue. All extensions can be removed by right-clicking their toolbar button (btw they HAVE to have a button) and selecting "Remove from Chrome."
- inlined 9y agoHad to help my family get rid of malware over the holidays. One was a bit tricky: chrome thought that a corp policy required the malware and a default search handler. Turns out you can set registry keys to disable removing extensions (though I presume that requires an attack vector that started outside the browser)
- ChrisSD 9y agoWhat if it doesn't have a toolbar button?
- applecrazy 9y agoGoogle policy says that all extensions must have a button: "Starting in this latest release, you’ll begin to see all extensions to the right of the URL bar, so you can easily remove anything you don’t recognize. Just right click the extension icon and select “Remove from Chrome.”"[0] [0]: https://blog.google/products/chrome/new-year-new-chrome/ https://blog.google/products/chrome/new-year-new-chrome/
- ChrisSD 9y agoAh I see, they got around that by colouring the icon the same as the background so it was "invisible"[0]. Obviously the extra space is suspicious if you're looking for it but I can see how that couldd be overlooked by most users. [0] https://blog.malwarebytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ChromeRedirect.png https://blog.malwarebytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Chr...