They believe that the outage could have been accidental since MetaMask shares many keywords with previously banned in-browser mining plugins.Ĭhrome has banned crypto mining addons. One Twitter user hazarded a guess as to why the sudden MetaMask delisting had occurred. For now, such software is vital to Ethereum achieving any sort of widespread adoption.
The plugin allows users to utilise Ethereum dApps from their browsers without being forced to run a full node. We hope to resolve this quickly, but future installs are still available on and MetaMask July 25, 2018įor those unaware, MetaMask works as a sort of bridge between the web browsers we use today and a decentralised World Wide Web of the future. If you already have the Chrome extension installed, you should be unaffected in the short term and your extension should work (knocks on wood). These include: Brave, Firefox, and Opera. The team were also careful to point out that they were working on a fix to this issue and that in the meantime, other browsers supporting the plugin remained unaffected.
However, new users are left unable to access the installer for the MetaMask plugin through Google Chrome. All other browsers are unaffected.Īccording to a later tweet from the team, those who already have the software working in their Chrome browsers will be unaffected by the delisting. We are unsure of why this is the case and we will update everyone as we get more information. PSA: MetaMask has been delisted from the Chrome Web Store. The news was announced via the MetaMask official Twitter account in the last couple of hours:
There is no word from either the MetaMask team or Google as to why this is the case. It has emerged today that the popular browser plugin MetaMask has been removed from the Google Chrome web store. MetaMask Inexplicably Vanishes from Chrome Web Store For now, the MetaMask team have no leads as to why this has occurred. The popular Google Chrome plugin MetaMask has suddenly disappeared from the browser’s web store.
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