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Same here with a tiny twist: opensource and has a SHA512 mentioned somewhere in the repo that could be verified against whatever comes from the chrome appstore.

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Would be meaningless because the chrome store auto-updates addons.

Questionable action but, one could freeze extensions via extended file system attributes & permissions or work around the auto-updates through the hosts file or other means... https://serverfault.com/questions/354606/where-do-i-find-the...

.. Or even a combination of the above.

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