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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Feb 2018
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Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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Terminated extensions don't get updated

Project Member Reported by michae...@chromium.org, Jan 14 2017

Issue description

I noticed that ExtensionUpdater only checks for enabled and disabled extensions, not terminated extensions:

https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/browser/extensions/updater/extension_updater.cc?sq=package:chromium&dr=CSs&rcl=1484324523&l=374

Is this by design, or a bug? I don't see why a terminated (e.g. crashed) extension should be exempt from update checks.
 
Cc: -rdevlin....@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Owner: rdevlin....@chromium.org
to devlin to answer
Cc: michae...@chromium.org
Whether or not it's by design, I don't know, but I'm not sure it's worth changing.  Terminated extensions shouldn't stay in that state forever, and they'll be updated once they are reloaded.  I can't *think* of anything that would break with updating them automatically, but I also don't know if it's worthwhile.  Is there any motivation to do so?
Cc: rdevlin....@chromium.org
Labels: -Pri-2 -Needs-Feedback Pri-3
Owner: ----
No motivation to fix. I just noticed it while parsing the comment for ExtensionService::GetExtensionById. InstallChecker and CrxInstaller use it, so I want to make sure if I refactor those classes I don't change the behavior at the same time.
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Marking as available.  Probably wouldn't be bad, but not something we'll likely address soon.
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Comment 5 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Feb 15 2018

Labels: Hotlist-Recharge-Cold
Status: Untriaged (was: Available)
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Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
[Extensions Triage] Marking as a WontFix based on the comments.

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