execute code on uninstall

[FM]

Hi I am trying to send a message to our server on an uninstall event.

I currently am using this code which is not working. The install
events are working correctly. And i find this scenario hard to debug
since the console output gets cleared and refreshed during this
process.

chrome.management.onUninstalled.addListener(function(id) {

if(localStorage[id] == "ourExtensionName") {
... some request....
}
});

any help is appreciated, thanks

[Ben]

See this thread[0] and, specifically, this message[1].
(though, I'm not sure if they still apply to this case)

[0]http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/94db2388467b320d/53af2b0f383974da
[1]http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/msg/53af2b0f383974da

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Ben

[FM]

Ok, im kinda already doing that. I am getting other extension's
uninstall events for sure, but I dont think I am getting my
extension's uninstall event, or for some reason chrome is killing the
request I am making to my server to register the uninstall.

Could either of those possibilities be true ? also does anyone know of
a better way to debug the uninstall event. Right now I have another
extension that just prints the console when it catches one of the
events. But i havent found a way to debug my own extensions uninstall
event ?

thanks

On Nov 29, 9:38 pm, Ben <benjo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:17:37 -0600, FM <fm.produkti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi I am trying to send a message to our server on an uninstall event.
>
> > I currently am using this code which is not working. The install
> > events are working correctly. And i find this scenario hard to debug
> > since the console output gets cleared and refreshed during this
> > process.
>
> > chrome.management.onUninstalled.addListener(function(id) {
>
> >     if(localStorage[id] == "ourExtensionName") {
> >          ... some request....
> >     }
> > });
>
> > any help is appreciated, thanks
>
> See this thread[0] and, specifically, this message[1].
> (though, I'm not sure if they still apply to this case)
>

> [0]http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/bro...
> [1]http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/msg...
>
> --
> Ben

[PhistucK]

There is no way to track uninstall operations of your own extension with the current APIs.

You can try and use NPAPI and create a watching process that will ping the NPAPI plugin and once it does not ping anymore (and the Chromium browser is not active at all), it means that the extension was either disabled or uninstalled.

But NPAPI is C++ and seems like too much work just for uninstallation hooks\logging.

☆PhistucK

> Ben

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[Antony Sargent]

We have a request for this on file at http://crbug.com/19383 - you can "star" the bug to get updates.