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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 47450
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Closed: Dec 2016
Cc:
maxwalker@chromium.org
rdevlin....@chromium.org
mea...@chromium.org
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OS: Linux , Windows , Chrome , Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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Fix extension options in Incognito

Project Member Reported by emilyschechter@chromium.org, Dec 27 2016 
It seems like the options page of a extension can't be viewed in incognito mode. So an ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT interstitial is shown.

Any specific reason why this happens? Should we be showing the options page in incognito mode?

Maybe we could open the options site in a normal window as we do for other chrome pages (settings, history, extensions, etc.)?

Comment 1 by rdevlin....@chromium.org, Dec 27 2016 

Yeah, this has been around forever - there's an existing  bug lying around.

TL;DR: If the extension is in "spanning" mode, it has a single process for incognito/non-incognito, and we can't (and shouldn't) show a non-incognito page in an incognito window, or show an incognito page in non-incognito process.  So we fail.  The error needs a lot of work.

Having them open in a normal window is an interesting thought - I'd be fine with that.

Is there anything here (apart from the suggestion to open in a normal window) not captured by  issue 47450 ?  If not, let's merge them.

Comment 2 by emilyschechter@chromium.org, Dec 27 2016

Mergedinto: 47450
Status: Duplicate (was: Untriaged)
Ah, no, let's dupe them, and follow up there. I didn't know about that one, thanks.
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