I would like to be able to be able to turn browser actions on and off via code as well. As there can be many ways to interact with an extension... and some users don't always want a browser action cluttering up the google chrome toolbar.... and others do :)
Perhaps on the initial loading of an extension event would be good to hook up to. On Dec 8, 9:33 pm, Anand Rangarajan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aaron, > > That sounds reasonable, if there is a way to pack a set of related > extensions. The issue is just > that many people may want to install multiple ones in one fell swoop. One > option is to just be > able to have a phantom extension linking to a bunch of related extensions. > > In the case of Gmail, the checker, mailto converter and Send with Gmail will > all be bundled. > > thanks, > anand > > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Anand Rangarajan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yeah, I know it can be done with pageAction, but this functionality is a > > > browserAction because that is > > > the best to provide the functionality on any page. Specifically, this > > > browserAction is to be able to email > > > the current URL and title from any page to a set of people. It solves the > > > common use case of unneeded > > > drudgery to open a tab, go to gmail, copy and paste the URL to send to > > some > > > people. > > > But, there is also a content script with this extension which converts > > > mailtos to gmail compose URLs. > > > I want to provide an option to turn off the browserAction since some > > people > > > do not seem to want the > > > button in their real estate. > > > I am guessing the answer to this is that it is not possible right now > > > without actually dropping the icon > > > in the manifest itself. > > > I suggest just having two extensions. These are really two separate > > features, and the Chrome extensions model is 1 feature per-extension. > > > - a -- 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.
