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is there chrome extension that restricts javascript execution to the tab in focus?

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Mar 15, 2026584 views
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Often I have lots of tabs open. Often, these tabs can be seen cheerfully burbling away, doing whatever snake stuff Google thinks it should be doing on my system. I then check my IDS to see what happened. This process gets a bit tiresome, and during my thoughts on this general topic it occurred to m…

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No. The current Chromium Extensions API is very restrictive which leads to poor extensions for Chrome (Compared to Firefox). The solution is to use Firefox4 or Waterfox4

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