What about extension uninstall ? How does an extension know that it is being uninstalled? There could be some actions (say some cleanup actions ... ) that the extension might want to do when it is being uninstalled. Is there something way this can be done right now ?
On Aug 26, 1:19 pm, Erik Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Aaron Boodman<[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Aaron Boodman<[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's nothing like that right now, though it is something we want to add. > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Erik Kay<[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's no event like this today, nor are there plans to add one. > > > Just to resolve these two differing viewpoints, we have talked in the > > past about having a key in the manifest that configures a first-run > > page. The extension system would open this page automatically the > > first time an extension is installed. That is what I was thinking of. > > Ah, yeah. I had forgotten about this. Thanks for the reminder. > > > Though in retrospect I guess since it is so easy to do using local > > storage, maybe we should not have an explicit API for it. > > Although to reverse my previous opinion (call me flip-flop), the nice > thing about having the install UI you're talking about is that it can > lead to a more consistent user experience when installing extensions > (especially those that don't have any always-visible UI). > > Anyway, it's not happening in the short term, and there's an easy > workaround, so I guess moot for now. > > Erik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" 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-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
