No more silent extension installs for Chrome.

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Google to halt the practice of slient extention installs on Chrome.

"Until now, it has been possible to silently install extensions into Chrome on Windows using the Windows registry mechanism for extension deployment. This feature was originally intended to allow users to opt-in to adding a useful extension to Chrome as a part of the installation of another application. Unfortunately, this feature has been widely abused by third parties to silently install extensions into Chrome without proper acknowledgment from users.
 No more silent extension installs for Chrome.