Please tell me if the extension was removed (taken down from Chrome Webstore or account was suspended) after 3 months will be it deleted from the Webstore finally? And will be it removed from computers of all users (which previously installed it) or not?
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I guess it would depend on how it was removed.
If a developer unpublishes the extension, it is not deleted from Web Store database, and existing installs will continue to exist but no new installs will happen.
If Google catches a malicious extension, it will be, in addition, remotely disabled on users' machines. It's hard to say if it's "deleted" from Web Store or simply unpublished.
Those are the 2 extreme situations. In-between there can be a whole spectrum. If an extension is delisted pending some changes, I'm not sure what happens with existing installs. Google probably explains that when it notifies a developer.
