Perhaps you can inform the user that they must close chrome browser before uninstalling. And your uninstall script will actually goto the users "User Data" directory and delete the extension folder which is just your extension id.
C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\[extension-id] -Mohamed Mansour On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Aris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, All! > We now distribute bunch of extensions for popular browsers, including > Chrome, as part of Windows Installer package. A question that worries > me is about our Chrome extension manual uninstalling - how can > Windows installer be notified of uninstalling Chrome exetnsion > manually from [Wrench menu] > Extensions? > > Details: > What we need is a call to msiexec.exe with some parameters (stored in > Windows registry upon installing; something like “msiexec /i > [ProductCode] REMOVE=ChromePlugin /qb”) when user clicks button > “Uninstall” on the chrome://extensions/ page – this removes Chrome > extension entries from Windows Installer database. > > Google Chrome version: 4.0.266.0 > Operating System: Windows XP Professional > > Thanks in advance! > > > -- > > 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]<chromium-extensions%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > > > -- 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.
