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VOCAB WORDS:
- extensions
- browser
- warning
- harmful
- secure

TRANSCRIPT: 
You’ll recall that last month Google started warning Microsoft Edge users about the browser’s potential dangers. You’re more secure using Chrome, the company said, whenever a Microsoft Edge user browsed their way onto the Chrome Web Store in search of extensions. Well, not any more.

At the time, Windows Latest, which first reported the warnings, accused Google of “abusing user agents,” or browser identity codes, to detect Edge users and flash up the frightener. Now Google has taken the criticism to heart—the warnings have stopped. Instead, users are greeted with a much more friendly: “You can now add extensions from the Chrome Web Store to Microsoft Edge—Click on ‘Add to Chrome’.” Good news indeed.

The issue arose because Chrome and Edge are both built on the same Chromium platform. It seems that Google’s reasoning for issuing the warning to Edge users is that the Microsoft browser does not integrate with Google’s Safe Browsing. Google explains that Safe Browsing enables Chrome and other browsers “to show users a warning message before they visit a dangerous site or download a harmful app—it also protects the Chrome Web Store from potentially harmful extensions.”

CREDITS:
Article: Google Chrome Now Has Some Good News For Millions Of Microsoft Users
Author: Zak Doffman
Publisher: Forbes
Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/09/google-chrome-now-has-some-good-news-for-millions-of-microsoft-users/#697fa8582e1c