Chrome Canary now shows a disable button for the extensions that overrides its Settings

Summary: Google already offers Reset button for Chrome Settings if they are hijacked without your knowledge, now the Chromium team has gone ahead and shows the culprit extension that manipulated crucial Google browser settings and lets you disable it from the browser settings page.

Disable the extension that has overridden Chrome’s Settings

We all know extensions installed in the browser (whether they’re from outside or from Chrome Web Store) can change search provider, homepage and New Tab Page.

Starting from Chrome Canary on Windows, if an extension overrides selected Chrome settings such as startup pages, homepage or search provider, a grey box will appear next to those on the settings page -chrome://settings- and shows a message ‘An extension, … is controlling this setting’ and offers ‘disable’ button to deactivate that extension. This feature soon will land on beta channel.

extension Disable setting thumb Chrome Canary now shows a disable button for the extensions that overrides its Settings

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Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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