As part of our continuing security efforts, we’re announcing a stronger measure to protect Windows users: starting in January on the Windows stable and beta cha

As part of our continuing security efforts, we’re announcing a stronger measure to protect Windows users: starting in January on the Windows stable and beta channels, we’ll require all extensions to be hosted in the Chrome Web Store. We’ll continue to support local extension installs during development as well as installs via Enterprise policy, and Chrome Apps will also continue to be supported normally. [1] My understanding is that you won't be able to sideload extensions locally anymore, unless you're using the dev channel. Yes, this sucks big time. [1] http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-from-malicious.html http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-fr...