The Chrome Web Store is Google's repository of extensions and themes for the Chrome web browser, which has had repeated issues with malicious extensions. The article as published on April 20, 2022, is preserved below. Both badges are live on the Chrome Web Store today.' Today, we’re announcing two new extension badges to help us deliver on our goal: the Featured badge and the Established Publisher badge.

It has always been our mission to make it easy for users to find great extensions while recognizing the publishers who create them.

The company said in a statement, 'since 2009, publishers have been hard at work building extensions that make Chrome more powerful, useful and customizable for users. It’s part of a bigger push from Google as a of late to make the Chrome Web Store feature not just content you would expect to be specific to Chrome, but the entire Web.Update 1 ( 11:34 ET): Google has officially announced the new badge system. This is a small but significant change for the Chrome Web Store. “With the new Group Publishing capability, an organization’s engineering, marketing and product management teams can now collaborate much more effectively to better manage their Chrome Web Store presence.” “Many organizations have multiple items that they need to manage-updates need to be published, testers need to be assigned, promotional images need to be rotated, marketing text needs to be tweaked, and so on,” Google Software Engineer Wei Zheng explains. It doesn’t matter whether you have apps, extensions, websites, or themes on the store this encompasses everything as it is for the whole publisher’s account. Once you’ve been added as a member, you can add, edit, and otherwise work with the store items and overall account-related properties.

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