There's a bug filed to implement that. This will mostly be useful for NPAPI
extensions, since we should be able to nuke all other state:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19383
-Nick

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:18 PM, The Sailor <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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
> >
>

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