Doug Stewart via plug on 4 Jan 2021 07:08:08 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Security issues with The Great Suspender

I've been a user of TGS for *years*. This was highly disrupting and disturbing. I uninstalled the extension last night (and accidentally killed a bunch of tabs that I probably should've closed ages ago, so if you're looking to keep those tabs, use OneTab or something).

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:29 AM Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
Hi,

"The Great Suspender" is a Google Chrome extension that automatically
suspends browser tabs that haven't been used for a while. I don't
personally use it, but if you do I urge you to read this:

https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1263

High level summary -- there's a new maintainer and there are all sorts
of shenanigans going on with it connecting to third-party servers.

Walt
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