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Microsoft is planning to introduce a new Edge security feature that will protect users against malicious extensions sideloaded into the web browser.

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The new feature means Edge will actively look for sideloaded extensions that are found to be malicious. If detected, Edge will automatically disable and remove them. This stops them from running and ...

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