We realize that this will require significant changes for some existing extensions. It is for these reasons that we’ve updated the Chrome Web Store policy to enforce our original single-purpose design goal for extensions. To help rectify this situation Google is offering developers until June of 2014 time to redo their extensions some of which require significant changes. Unfortunately, some extension developers took advantage of content scripts and put as much UI as they wanted into an extension. ![]() Simple and speedy web browsing is one of the company’s core principles behind the Chromium project and Chrome specifically. Google believes that not all extensions “have lived up to this ideal…multipurpose extensions can crowd your browser UI and slow down your web browsing – sometimes significantly.” The update to the policy is basically summed up as: “extensions in the Chrome Web Store must have a single purpose that is narrow and easy-to-understand.” That sounds simple enough, no? ![]() Google’s Chromium Blog just announced intentions of the search engine giant to knock out toolbars and “multipurpose extensions” out of the Chrome Web Store.
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