{"id":598,"date":"2018-06-13T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T11:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.frenify.net\/?p=598"},"modified":"2018-06-13T11:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T11:31:46","slug":"google-is-tightening-up-chrome-extensions-so-you-cant-install-them-from-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/google-is-tightening-up-chrome-extensions-so-you-cant-install-them-from-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is tightening up Chrome extensions so you can\u2019t install them from websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"5srcLo\">Google is announcing some changes to the way it handles extensions in its Chrome browser. Starting today, newly published extensions will only be available in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/category\/extensions\">Chrome Web Store<\/a>. For years, web developers have been able to trigger installations of Chrome extensions from their own websites,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.chrome.com\/webstore\/inline_installation\">or inline installation as Google calls it<\/a>, but Google is phasing this method out.<\/p>\n<p id=\"S83Iy4\">\u201cWe continue to receive large volumes of complaints from users about unwanted extensions causing their Chrome experience to change unexpectedly,\u201d explains \u200bJames Wagner, Google\u2019s extensions platform product manager. \u201cThe majority of these complaints are attributed to confusing or deceptive uses of inline installation on websites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is announcing some changes to the way it handles extensions in its Chrome browser. Starting today, newly published extensions will only be available in the\u00a0Chrome Web Store. For years, web developers have been able to trigger installations of Chrome extensions from their own websites,\u00a0or inline installation as Google calls it, but Google is phasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-2","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}