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Removed from chrome store for containing malware?
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- Extension version: 7.1.9
- Browser name & version: Chrome Version 88.0.4324.146 (Official Build) (x86_64)
- Operating system & version: Mac OS Big Sur 1.1
I just notification that The great suspender had been removed from my browser due to it having malware and now i am unable to find it on the chrome extension store?
The below link no longer works: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg
Hopefully this is a case of Chrome overreaching and auto-detections has interpreted some code wrong!
This is likely not an overreach. The new maintainer of this extension has been acting shady for a few months.
I had quite a few tabs removed when chrome pulled this extension.
Anyone know if there's a way to restore them?
I feel dumb for not knowing this was an ongoing issue. :/ time to change all the passwords
@dmihal, you should be able to press the back button on your browser and get the page back. You can also look at the URL, for example: chrome-extension://klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg/suspended.html#ttl=Data.Argonaut.Core%20-%20purescript-argonaut-core%20-%20Pursuit&pos=3908&uri=https://pursuit.purescript.org/packages/purescript-argonaut-core/4.0.1/docs/Data.Argonaut.Core. You can get the URL for the page you were on from the last query parameter, uri.
I had quite a few tabs removed when chrome pulled this extension.
Anyone know if there's a way to restore them?
The original URL is embedded inside the TGS url, you can decode it and reopen the tab that way.
EDIT: beaten by @azuzunaga
Is there any way to recover currently suspended tabs when the extension was removed? Or do I have to manually reopen each tab
EDIT: Nevermind - answered already
how to force chrome to enable the extension? they disabled it without warning, all tabs are lost.
@daviavmello I went back to the last release before ownership transfer, https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/releases/tag/v7.1.6.
To install it, download and unpack tgs-7.1.6.zip. Then go to your chrome extension settings and click on load unpacked. Select the unpacked folder and you should be good to go. You'll lose your settings, including the whitelist.
I have just followed the instructions at the bottom of #1263 to get the most recent version before the malicious maintainer arrived. Is working fine and i will keep it that way unless we can an answer/ any changes to the existing code.
Chrome just close all of my suspended tab and I have no chance to restore it. ha
Looking at tab history, 90% of my suspended tabs were all opened at the same time when I launched chrome so there is a nice timestamp where you can re-open and then manually fix the tabs if you want them re-opened
Well, this now kicks me in the ass to finally switch over to the last build before the new maintainer took over.
Just have to figure out how to get all my tabs back.. because Google are atrocious at giving users any control.
Edit: Figured something out: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1304#issuecomment-773528627
Chrome just close all of my suspended tab and I have no chance to restore it. ha
Go into your chrome history and find the suspended tabs, and just take the URL from them as described above in this thread
Some good articles for context: Ditch 'The Great Suspender' Before It Becomes a Security Risk We no longer recommend the Chrome extension The Great Suspender. Here is why!
Can anyone point what security issues this extension had?
https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1263
Can anyone point what security issues this extension had?
New maintainer was acting shady. Lots of tracking etc - #1263
@daviavmello I went back to the last release before ownership transfer, https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/releases/tag/v7.1.6.
To install it, download and unpack
tgs-7.1.6.zip. Then go to your chrome extension settings and click on load unpacked. Select the unpacked folder and you should be good to go. You'll lose your settings, including the whitelist.
Isn't the version number identical to the current release?
By the way, for me, the old release has an ID/hash "ileadlglecldmodljgiolifnolmmnkid", whereas the one on the chrome web store is "klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg". After you installed the old version, go to session management, export, find and replace the ID in your sessions.txt, and import session. If it works, you may close your outdated windows.
I'll be switching to The Marvellous Suspender - a fork of TheGreatSuspender without any tracking
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-marvellous-suspender/noogafoofpebimajpfpamcfhoaifemoa/
I had read those articles and still not switched away from this extension, so my 2000+ suspended tabs in limbo is due to my inaction. There's no medicine for regret.
@daviavmello I went back to the last release before ownership transfer, https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/releases/tag/v7.1.6. To install it, download and unpack
tgs-7.1.6.zip. Then go to your chrome extension settings and click on load unpacked. Select the unpacked folder and you should be good to go. You'll lose your settings, including the whitelist.Isn't the version number identical to the current release?
@csis0247 latest version available on Chrome before it got pulled was 7.1.8. It contained code that wasn't on Github so that was what set off alarms for some people.