Proposal: runtime.setUninstallURL

[Jared Shumway]

Here is a proposal for a new endpoint in the runtime API, setUninstallURL. It would allow extensions to register a URL that would be opened in a new tab when the extension is uninstalled.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VRkNqHIX3HTjJwcVL89zBLVOyi1kkUvXD1Tj0aMC-oI/edit?usp=sharing

[Benjamin Kalman]

Note that this has basically already been implemented in some form a (long) while ago, just never went out of dev; for that matter I'm not even sure if it's been through an API review. Thanks Jared for offering to take it to stable!

[Scott Fujan]

I will note:

1) This has long been in the stable docs erroneously: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/runtime.html#method-setUninstallUrl

2) The docs suggest that it can be used "to clean up server-side data, do analytics," but these use case don't imply that the url would open as a new tab. I would expect this function to optionally support a request to the url without opening a new tab.

2a) If no support for a tab-less request, the docs should be updated to specify that it always opens a tab.

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[Benjamin Kalman]

A tab-less option SGTM. I also wonder about how this should behave offline, come to think of it.

[Mustafa Emre Acer]

Lgtm, thanks.

You might want to check a couple of edge cases, e.g. if setUninstallUrl('chrome://<extension_id>/resource.png') crashes the browser when the extension is uninstalled and so on (very unlikely, but well...).

[Mustafa Emre Acer]

[sending again from chromium.org address]

Lgtm, thanks.

You might want to check a couple of edge cases, e.g. if setUninstallUrl('chrome://<extension_id>/resource.png') crashes the browser when the extension is uninstalled and so on (very unlikely, but well...).