Re: New Permission to Override Extension Page

[Miko]

Is this the right place for this sort of request?

On Monday, October 8, 2012 1:25:27 AM UTC-4, Miko wrote:

Greetings,

I was wondering if you could add functionality to the existing override module (http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/override.html) as to allow overriding the 

chrome://chrome/extensions/ page. A separate permission for it would be appropriate, since a user probably wan't to allow typical extensions to override the extensions page. If there was a new permission for "overriding the extensions page" then it would be safer for the users.

What's the use case -- your probably asking. Well, a slickly styled new extensions manager, is the obvious example. Or perhaps an extension with more developer tools in the extension page. 

Something less obvious, would be an extension that can't be easily disabled. An extension that the user willingly wouldn't want to disable or uninstall easily. If I download an extension that is supposed to block distracting websites for me, what good is it if I can simply open the extensions manager and disable it in a second? Or what if my company had an extension that was important for all the employees, and they didn't want employees disabling it by accident?

I have a Firefox Add-On that blocks distracting websites for the user (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/idderall/). The add-on can't be uninstalled while a block is active. However, it can be uninstalled at any other time (as to give the user a window for uninstall). I achieved this with the Firefox Add-On APIs, but it seems with Google Chrome the api's are less flexible, and I'm more limited. This is a feature that I've realized all my users love and want. I wan't to port this extension to Chrome now, but it would be useless if it could be easily uninstalled. 

Can we consider adding this functionality to the extension API with a new permission?

Thanks,

Miko

[Joe Marini]

Hi Miko,

It's probably better to file an issue on the Chromium bug tracker.

Joe

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