On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Antony Sargent <asarg...@google.com> wrote:
> What if the Incognito profile started with a copy-on-write version of
> extensions' localStorage? That way extensions in Incognito mode would see
> the writes they just made, but changes would not persist beyond Incognito
> mode.
This actually wouldn't be too hard to do and probably makes the most sense.
(SessionStorage, which shares 99% of the same code, already uses COW when
you duplicate tabs.)
> Then we could either add the messaging API for Incognito <-> Regular
> extension communication, or add an explicit settings API that would have the
> same storage regardless of Incognito mode.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Matt Perry <mpcompl...@chromium.org>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Adam Barth <aba...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you considered how incognito interacts with extensions that have
>>> NPAPI components? It might not be feasible to create a second, isolated
>>> instance of those extensions because the NPAPI component has direct access
>>> to system calls.
>>
>>
>> Good point, I hadn't considered that. This is similar to Drew's point
>> about a systray API.
>>
>> I wonder if read-only access to localStorage will be confusing to authors.
>>> I can imagine extensions doing wonky things if they assume they can write
>>> to localStorage. Maybe we should have a separate API for reading
>>> information from the non-incognito localStorage?
>>>
>>
>> Would localStorage start off empty (and have no persistence) as it does in
>> regular renderers, then? I think read-only access to localStorage is
>> important because extensions currently use it for storing preferences, and
>> ideally they would share settings without the extension explicitly
>> supporting it.
>>
>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:28 PM, <mpcompl...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've shared Extensions
>>>> Incognito<http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AbzUSl_g6CjAZGdzZHJnanJfM2RiY3N3dmZz&hl=en&invite=CJ3Si8MG>
>>>> Message from mpcompl...@chromium.org:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on adding support for running extensions in incognito mode
>>>> (bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=20175 ). Here is
>>>> a proposal for how it might work. Any and all feedback is welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Click to open:
>>>>
>>>> - Extensions
>>>> Incognito<http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AbzUSl_g6CjAZGdzZHJnanJfM2RiY3N3dmZz&hl=en&invite=CJ3Si8MG>
>>>>
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