Access to chrome:// urls launched from script now restricted.

[Toady Smith]

Hello,

My chrome extension in the web store uses a chrome://restart url, The URL is relatively safe in terms of how its used, In chrome 45-46 using chrome.tabs.create({url: "chrome://restart"}); even with [tabs] in the permissions section

no longer works, Using a standard url does.

Is there a new method for this, My extension relies on this to work.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/restart-my-chrome/poifblphedfakpplnemomhgkhhpkpkla

Its git hub repository https://github.com/InternalError503/restart-my-chrome

Unchecked runtime.lastError while running tabs.create: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I can't do that.

    at Object.callback (chrome-extension://digedclaffobckmjphdjmbmmcbfjnhoo/js/overlay.js:143:33)reportIfUnchecked @ extensions::lastError:133

Any help here would be greatly appreciated thank you.

[Mike Olsen]

we also heavily use this feature as well, removing it would be horrible for us

Mike Olsen

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[Ellis Antaya]

In which use case do you need to restart?
How about this instead :
window.document.location.reload()

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[PhistucK]

chrome:restart restarts the entire browser. Your code "restarts" the current tab.

☆PhistucK

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[Ellis Antaya]

I know the difference between them :)
but in which use case do you need to restart the entire browser?

[PhistucK]

Did you go to the page of the extension? This is exactly its purpose - to restart the browser by clicking on a browser action button. Some people need it, apparently (13,000+ of them).

☆PhistucK

[Ellis Antaya]

hum ok, no i didnt know about that kind of extension.

i prefer use a bookmark that targets the chrome://restart url ;)

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" Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is.  You have to see it for yourself. "

[PhistucK]

This only works if you have the bookmarks bar visible, but it can take essential room, so I guess the extension helped with that.

☆PhistucK

[Rob Wu]

Not being able to use chrome://restart was an intentional change: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=508192

If you have some use cases for wanting to quit and/or reload the browser, you could try to post a feature request for a proper API at https://crbug.com/new.

Kind regards,

 Rob

 https://robwu.nl

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[Mike Olsen]

still appears to work in todays chrome 45 release

Mike Olsen