Won't pick a color from a local web page (Color Picker) [Eye Dropper]

[Cameron Dixon]

I'm using the extension Eye Dropper, and it's awesome except according to "Google Policy" it won't let me pick a color from a local web page.  As a web developer, this makes no sense to me as I sometimes want to pick a color from the page I just developed to make it easy to access instead of looking through code (trying different options).  

Can I get an explanation of why it won't let me do that?  Seems Crazy to me to think that of all things that is against policy, especially if a page is local, I developed it!

[Torne (Richard Coles)]

You have to explicitly grant the extension permission to operate on file:/// urls in the extension settings page. This is only possible if the extension actually asked for it, and it defaults to off.

On 20 November 2012 15:01, Cameron Dixon <cam....@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm using the extension Eye Dropper, and it's awesome except according to "Google Policy" it won't let me pick a color from a local web page.  As a web developer, this makes no sense to me as I sometimes want to pick a color from the page I just developed to make it easy to access instead of looking through code (trying different options).  

Can I get an explanation of why it won't let me do that?  Seems Crazy to me to think that of all things that is against policy, especially if a page is local, I developed it!

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[Torne (Richard Coles)]

On 20 November 2012 15:18, Cameron Dixon <cam....@gmail.com> wrote:

I looked under the options and didnt see an option to enable local pages.  Is there a file to edit?  How do you do it?

The extension only asks for permission to operate on http:// and https:// URLs, so the option isn't there. The author needs to actually ask for permission to run on file:// in their manifest before it can be granted.

 

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[Damon Lenahan]

I saved it to Google Drive and was able to use Color Picker from there.