Google disables Great Suspender extension and says it ‘contains malware’

The Great Suspender has just been expelled.

Users of the popular Chrome Tab extension extension were greeted with an unwelcome message from Google on Thursday to point out that their favorite add-on may have had some side effects. Specifically, Chrome warned that the Great Suspender ‘contains malware’.

The message was accompanied by a semi-splitting of the Chrome extension, and a loss of all users’ suspended tabs.

We contacted Google, which has the Chrome browser, for more information about the suspected malware, but got no immediate response. Writing this post will result in an error page if you try to pull up the Great Suspender in the Chrome Web Store.

However, this was not the first warning about the seemingly sketchy expansion. In early January, the Register, a technology news publication, reported on the injuries to Great Suspender dating back to November. Around the same time, Microsoft Edge blocked the expansion.

The message clearly did not reach many of the fans of the apps, some of whom are at least now mourning their lost tabs.

And while losing tabs can be temporarily annoying, we somehow think they will recover.