Also, think twice before visiting any website. A web browser can be used for many things. Some of those things (like running extensions, or visiting web pages) have the potential to deliver malicious code to a user's machine. It is not Google's responsibility to police the content of the web, or the content of Chrome extensions. Although one could argue that it would be wise for Google to use its vast resources to provide recommendations/warnings on extensions, similarly to what it does for links in Google results that it suspects are delivering malware.
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Also, think twice before visiting any website. A web browser can be used for many things. Some of those things (like running extensions, or visiting web pages) have the potential to deliver malicious code to a user's machine. It is not Google's responsibility to police the content of the web, or the content of Chrome extensions. Although one could argue that it would be wise for Google to use its vast resources to provide recommendations/warnings on extensions, similarly to what it does for links in Google results that it suspects are delivering malware.
Sure, but browsers work hard to keep web sites from doing arbitrary things to your computer, and mostly succeed, most of the time.
It's also a huge deal when they fail.
Extensions get extra permission to do stuff, so it would be nice if they got extra auditing or restrictions.