The Great Suspender: Removed or Compromised

What happened

The popular tab-suspending extension (over 2 million users) was sold to an unknown party in mid-2020. The new owner pushed an update that added tracking and remote-executed code with no source on GitHub. Google removed it from the Chrome Web Store and force-disabled it for installed users on February 4, 2021, flagging it as malware.

What affected users could do

Users had to uninstall it and switch to the community-maintained open-source fork ("The Marvellous Suspender") or a different tab manager. Any tabs held only in the extension's suspended state risked being lost when Chrome disabled it.

Source

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