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OS: Chrome
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Type: Bug



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Audit content settings on Chrome OS

Project Member Reported by steve...@chromium.org, Feb 13 2017

Issue description

From  issue 688485 :

We should investigate hiding sections on Chrome OS entirely that may not apply:
* PDF documents 
* Unsandboxed plugin access
* MIDI
* USB Devices

The following have not been tested on Chrome OS in guest mode (testing is complicated or not obvious):
* Background sync
* Automatic downloads
* Handlers

 
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Labels: M-59
Labels: Proj-MaterialDesign-WebUI Hotlist-MD-Settings-Privacy-SiteSettings
Labels: -M-59
* Verified background sync toggle works in non-guest and guest mode.
* Automatic downloads - I'm still not sure how to test this, but can not imagine there is anything special about this on Chrome OS.
* Handlers - these have been disabled in guest mode.

Leaving this open as we should probably document the validity of the issues mentioned, but removing the milestone marker.

With ARC++ apps able to open to PDFs, I could see keeping the PDF content settings around. I believe there are also MIDI/USB APIs that work on Chrome OS, no?
The PDF setting is "Open PDFs using a different application".

On Chrome OS, if that is enabled, PDF files are downloaded instead of opened in the browser, which is a little odd / unexpected.

As for MIDI/USB APIs on Chrome OS - I have no idea, thus this bug :)

Re #6 PDF, see some discussion in here: 700118
^  issue 700118 
Sounds like PDF behavior is confusing in the same way on all platforms, so that just leaves the following to investigate on CrOS:

* Unsandboxed plugin access
* MIDI
* USB Devices

It looks like there are web APIs for both MIDI and USB, and I'd assume they are available on Chrome OS:
USB: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/03/access-usb-devices-on-the-web
MIDI: https://www.keithmcmillen.com/blog/making-music-in-the-browser-web-midi-api/

Not sure we support unsandboxed plugins though
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