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Status: Archived
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Closed: May 2017
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OS: Windows
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Type: Bug



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Missing option to keep extension disabled

Reported by stefan.p...@gmail.com, May 4 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Run Chrome with some extensions on one PC.
2. Set up a fresh new PC and in Chrome sign in, syncing extensions.
3. Restart Chrome on the new PC.

What is the expected behavior?
The notification shouldn't say "The newest version of the extension requires more permissions" but something like "The extension requires permissions you didn't give it on this PC yet, but you gave these permissions on another PC". The current text is misleading.

More importantly, there should be a third option in addition to "Re-enable" and "Remove from Chrome...", namely "Keep disabled". And after me clicking that, don't bug me again at every start of Chrome (so far I've been using the little "X" to click these notifications away).

Finally, the notification says "... so it has been disabled. It can now: XYZ". Huh? How can it do something if it's disabled? Especially since the XYZ is "read and change all your data on the websites you visit". How can it do that if it's disabled? I guess the notification should say something like "The required permissions are:"?

What went wrong?
Every time I start Chrome on the new PC (and *only* on the new PC), I get misleading "extension requires new permission" notifications for several extensions, with only the options "Re-enable" and "Remove from Chrome...".

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Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 50.0.2661.94  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0
 
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Comment 1 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, May 4 2017

Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
Issue has not been modified or commented on in the last 365 days, please re-open or file a new bug if this is still an issue.

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