Is it possible to disable paste protection "allow pasting" when using web-ext?

[Juraj M.]

I'm using amazing "web-ext" for development which opens new Chrome instance, which means all warnings are reset every time when I start working.

And one of the more annoying warnings is the "allow pasting" which needs to be typed manually:

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/self-xss#when_will_devtools_show_self-xss_warnings

Is there a way to disable it somehow? I see the "Chrome for Testing" has it disabled, but it also won't auto-update which is also not great.

[Patrick Kettner]

Hi Juraj!

Not currently. There is a bug, but it isn't fixed yet. 

The "allow pasting" thing will show up for profiles that have fewer than 5 console unique history entries. The simplest way I have found to avoid having to type that is to do the numbers 1-5, hitting enter after each one. For whatever reason, I find this ever so slightly less obnoxious to use. 

If you would be able to chime in on that bug with your usecase for getting a flag to disable it, it will help that team prioritize it and potentially ship one faster. 

patrick

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[Juraj M.]

Thanks Patrick!

Done :)

[Patrick Kettner]

There may be a bug in web-ext with how it creates a chrome profile. Running `web-ext run -t chromium --chromium-profile /tmp/fakeprofile --profile-create-if-missing` will reuse the same directory, but wherever the setting that saves selfXssWarningDisabledSetting is stored, it is not being copied over. But when you use the chrome flag `--user-data-dir` directly, it does persist the setting.

[Juraj M.]

Good idea!

I remember using existing profile used to be buggy in web-ext, I've reported some issues many years ago: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/issues/1363

Since then I'm always using clean profile so I've totally forgot there is this feature.

[wOxxOm]

Reusing the same profile may be undesirable for testing.

There's a way to do it without reusing the entire profile by providing a barebones Preferences file.

You can also configure other parameters for devtools by copying them from your normal Preferences file, which is just a minified JSON.

1. Create an empty directory c:\foo in Windows or ~/foo in other OS

2. Inside of foo create an empty directory Default

3. Inside Default create Preferences file (without extension) like this:

{
  "devtools": {
    "preferences": {
      "disable-self-xss-warning": "true"
    }
  }
}

4. Start web-ext run --target chromium --chromium-profile c:\foo

[Patrick Kettner]

Great call, thanks wOxxOm!

[Juraj M.]

Whoa! This is amazing!

I'm looking at this "Preferences" file for my main Chrome and there is a bunch of other preferences you can set, things I've been doing manually, like moving the window to my secondary screen, changing dev-tools position/size...

And I can even pin my extension to toolbar with "pinned_extensions" array! :D Amazing! Even "snoozed_feature" to get rid of other popups.

This is gonna save me so much work and time!

Big THANKS @wOxxOm! You've made my day :)