It's things like this that make me a lot more reluctant to install extensions that might be moderately convenient. Maybe they're okay now, but it's too much of

It's things like this that make me a lot more reluctant to install extensions that might be moderately convenient. Maybe they're okay now, but it's too much of a burden to keep track of what I have installed and which ones are known to be doing something nasty. Another loser in this whole game is the honest hobby extension developers, who have to deal with the power-users who might promote their extensions not wanting to bother for fear of not being able to keep a watch for potential malicious updates for all of them.