I'm not a heavy extensions user, but I can think of basic use cases for both per-browser and per-profile installation, mostly having to do with whether or not the extension has state. It seems to me that stateful extensions at the very least need per-profile state, even if the extension itself is installed per-user or per-machine. --Amanda
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
