My extension isn't recommended on the intent popup.

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Yoichiro Tanaka

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May 29, 2012, 11:27:57 PM5/29/12
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Hi there,

I have already published my extension "goo.gl URL Shortener extension" and yesterday its extension supported Web Intents. It can receive the action "http://webintents.org/shorten", and I could find it in the application list which are supporting Web Intents on the following page. Therefore, I think that my extension is recognized by Chrome Web store as an extension supported Web Intents.


However, when I tried my extension on the following page for testing, my extension wasn't listed up in the popup window where applications and extensions which can receive the target intent is displayed. Why was my extension not recommended? I could not understand the difference between my extension and two displayed extensions.

I wrote the definition of the intent into the manifest.json as the following:

...
"intents": {
      "type": ["text/uri-list"],
      "href": "./webintent.html",
      "title": "goo.gl URL Shortener extension",
      "disposition": "inline"
  } ]
}
...

How should I edit the manifest above to solve this problem?

Thanks,
-Yoichiro

Paul Kinlan

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May 30, 2012, 4:14:49 AM5/30/12
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Hi,

I went to http://demos.webintents.org/shortener/index.html clicked the button and saw the attached screenshot of the picker.

Here I don;t have it installed, but you can see it as one of the suggested items from the Chrome Web Store to install.

Can you send me screenshot of what you see and the page that you invoked it from.

Thanks,
P


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Yoichiro Tanaka

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May 30, 2012, 5:17:49 AM5/30/12
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Hi Paul,

I attached my screenshot. My extension is not shown yet (tested on my mac and win).

But, I requested the testing to my colleagues, and their browsers showed my extension in the picker.
I guess that the cause of this problem may be my environment...

I could confirm that I have only this problem, and almost users don't have it.
Thank you for your answer, Paul. :)

-Yoichiro
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Paul Kinlan

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May 30, 2012, 7:19:18 AM5/30/12
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That is an oddity.

Are you running a development version of your extension too?

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Yoichiro Tanaka

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May 30, 2012, 7:44:04 AM5/30/12
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No, I tried a situation which both a development and a published extensions weren't installed in my Chrome browser...
At least, I think that it seems that this problem isn't important, because I couldn't reproduce it on some environments of other members.

I'm going to find the cause of it a little more.

Thanks,
-Yoichiro
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