Chrome is disabling the extension after update

[Vipul Mishra]

Hey guys, 

We have recently updated our Chrome extension which need few new permissions. I quite recently realized that it's disabled after update.

I am wondering if this is normal behavior or am I missing something?

Or, if it can be solved/worked around, it'll be awesome to hear suggestions. 

Here's the Chrome extn. link - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/visual-inspector-by-canva/efaejpgmekdkcngpbghnpcmbpbngoclc?hl=en

Cheers!

Vipul

[Brian T. Nakamoto]

Hi Vipul,

That's normal behavior, I presume so an extension can't silently escalate its privileges with an update.

-Brian

(doesn't work for G)

[Devlin Cronin]

Yes, this is normal behavior.  Any time an extension adds new permissions that would result in additional permission warnings, the extension is disabled on the user's machine, and the user is prompted to re-enable it with the new permissions.  This is for security and privacy, so that extensions cannot silently increase permissions.

Note that adding optional permissions will *not* disable the extension, since those are not automatically granted and the user has to approve them separately.