RFE: Enable Extensions/Applications Incognito ONLY
Reported by
kevinve...@gmail.com,
Sep 24 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.91 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: Currently, to run any Extention/Application I have to enable them in User mode to use in Incognito mode as well. What is the expected behavior? As a user, I wish to install and enable any Chrome Extention App to run only in Incognito mode. What went wrong? It is a user perception that having ability to run extensions/apps in Incognito only will provide more security and privacy as a default option. Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 61.0.3163.91 Channel: n/a OS Version: Flash Version:
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Sep 27 2017
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Sep 29 2017
[Extensions triage] : Can you elaborate on your use case. Generally, I'd imagine that one would want to run a subset of extensions in the incognito mode (as compared to the normal mode).
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Sep 30 2017
Having the ability to enable apps/extensions only incognito mode may turn to be a useful tradeoff for the user on an ephemeral basis during each incognito session. It is common for apps/extension to demand various data permissions pertaining user's overall browser interaction, some users are very sensitive to provide that level of access all of the time to third-party code.
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Oct 2 2017
So basically, testing environment for untrusted extensions? That sounds useful, but note that you could achieve that today simply using a separate profile.
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Oct 7 2017
To answer and clarify for comment#5, this feature request suggests an ability for a user to install and use extension/apps only in Private-browsing mode. It is assumed that such an ability allows the users to allow extensions/apps the required data access permissions only on ephemeral basis avoiding the overheads of an additional browser profile management. For another perspective, such a feature may also be thought useful where users would want to mitigate privacy risks for one or more least trusted extension/apps being enabled only in the Incognito mode.
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Dec 15 2017
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Comment 1 by sc00335...@techmahindra.com
, Sep 25 2017Components: UI>Browser>Incognito Platform>Extensions
Labels: Needs-Triage-M63 Triaged-ET M-63 OS-Mac OS-Windows
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)