Google Chrome is widely-considered to be the most popular browser across the globe.
The client is renowned for being fast, easy to use and highly customisable.
Google Chrome allows for a variety of extensions to be installed on the browser that have a wide-range of functions.
The American tech behemoth recently announced there are over 180,000 extensions currently available on the Chrome Web Store.
It added nearly half of Chrome users harness the power of extensions when surfing the web.
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And now Google has announced a variety of changes for the functionality that are set to make browsing more safe.
Chrome 70, the forthcoming version of the client, will give users the option to restrict access of extensions to a custom list of websites.
Google insisted such a move was made to prevent “a broad range of misuse” that involved some extensions reading and altering data on certain pages.
The Silicon Valley titan explained: “Beginning in Chrome 70, users will have the choice to restrict extension host access to a custom list of sites, or to configure extensions to require a click to gain access to the current page.
“While host permissions have enabled thousands of powerful and creative extension use cases, they have also led to a broad range of misuse – both malicious and unintentional – because they allow extensions to automatically read and change data on websites.
“Our aim is to improve user transparency and control over when extensions are able to access site data.”
Moreover, Google also declared extensions with obfuscated code will no longer be allowed on the Chrome Web Store.
Obfuscated code is essentially code that is intentionally made difficult to understand – this can be a tactic used by bad actors to prevent their files from being examined or detected in the first place.
Google explained over 70 percent of “malicious and policy violating extensions” that are blocked contain such code.
The latest series of moves are part of an effort to improve the “long term health of the Chrome extensions ecosystem”, Google explained.