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Google disables and removes The Great Suspender extension for containing malware!
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Google has removed the popular Chrome plugin The Great Suspender from the Chrome Web Store. The company has also remotely disabled the extension for users who had it installed with a warning message saying that it contains malware.

The Great Suspender was a very popular extension for Chrome that 'suspended' idle Chrome tabs thereby reducing the RAM usage of the browser. Since Chrome is known to be resource hungry, the extension became extremely popular in relatively little time. The plugin was open source so there were no privacy risks associated with it as users could see its source code on Github.

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