On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:01 AM, idanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Dec 16, 8:50 pm, Mike Belshe <[email protected]> wrote: > > My thought is that extensions should not apply in the incognito mode. > > That would be terrible. Imagine a usability extension (zoom part of > the view, support for alternate input method, etc) > and it would go away when you're incognito. Sorry to disagree but if I > say they absolutely must work in incognito mode. > > > Another option is to have scoping of extensions; globally or profile > based. But that sounds complicated. > > > > Maybe for now just implement profile-scoped extensions, and if this is > > obviously insufficient then you can add global scopes? > > Let me propose a slight variation: Extensions are installed globally, > enabled or disabled per-profile and globally > set as enabled or disabled by default. Here is the rationale: > > - Based on the fact users want different extensions (moslty because > they like different behaviors/UI/etc) we > need to be able to selectively enable them per-profile. > - IMO, the main argument for global extensions (or even profile > options) for vendors is to set extensions and options > before any user account is created. Say you are Lenovo and you want > an extension for reporting issues to Lenovo > but you do not have a place to put because user's haven't created > any profiles yet, they haven't even bought the > machine. If you can globally set what extensions (and options) are > enabled (selected) by default then each time > a new user starts Chrome for the first time, all those things get > set into their (new) profile. From that point, users > are free to disable and change any extensions and options they want. > > - Itai > Yes, this is exactly the kind of use case that led to adding support for globally installable extension in Firefox. We had a number of Google products shipping Firefox extensions and IE extensions, and it was desirable to be able to register a Firefox extension before Firefox had even been installed, just in case Firefox happens to be installed, the extension will then become visible to Firefox. -Darin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
