I've been struggling with how extensions and profiles should relate. My initial thinking was that we should support installing extensions per-profile and per-machine (the latter for distribution deals mostly). Currently, our extension manager (ExtensionsService) object is owned by the profile and looks for extensions inside the profile directory. As for incognito mode, my assumption was that it was more correct to have extensions keep working in incognito mode than to have them stop working (there are tradeoffs both ways though).
My immediate issue is that I'm trying to implement support for the extension:// protocol, which looks like this: extension://<extensionid>/path/inside/extension. In order to implement this, I need to be able to track a request back to the profile it came from. But at the point my custom protocol handler gets invoked, profile information is long since toast. Stepping back, I could make some simplifying assumptions: * We could start by implementing per-chrome-install extensions only. In that case a static protocol handler is fine. I'd also have to change the extension service to be a singleton and instead look for extension inside the app directory, similar to how npapi plugins work. * I could keep extensions installed per-profile for now, but assume that there is really only one profile per-browser process. In this world, I'd still make ExtensionsService be a singleton, but I'd initialize at browser startup with the path to the profile that was picked at startup. Any thoughts, either on advantages or disadvantages to installing extensions per-chrome install, or to assuming that there is only one profile per browser process? Thanks, - a --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
