philip, this seems a regression since user claim it worked on Chrome 66 and stop working on Chrome 67. Can you assign master_preferences owner?

Hi team,
An enterprise customer has reported the same issue as this case.
Is there any update that can be shared with the customer?

case#16241062

privard@
as yiningc@ commented previously, could you please assign this bug case to the master_preferences owner?

Greg, you were doing some work in this space. Can you comment on this?

rdevlin.cronin: has anything changed in the land of extensions since Chrome 66 that would break preinstalling extensions via master_preferences as documented in https://www.chromium.org/administrators/pre-installed-extensions? I've just tried with 70.0.3538.77 using the example on that page. While I see that OnExtensionSystemReady (https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/chrome/browser/first_run/first_run.cc?dr&q=OnExtensionSystemReady%5C(+file:first_run.cc&sq=package:chromium&g=0&l=161) is being called, the specified extension isn't installed.

Thanks for taking a look.

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I am not currently investigating this.  Do we know if this is still an issue?

It was an issue when I looked into it. Is there someone on the extensions team who could try out the documented process I mentioned in comment 7 and see what's going on? I don't know the extension system well enough to investigate further. Thanks.

Hi privard@ is there someone on the extensions team that could continue to investigate this issue?

Hi Devlin,

We are receiving some feedback from some customers that this issue is persistent in more recent versions of Chrome. Can you please investigate as per #c7?

lazyboy@, I think you have a windows machine - can you investigate this and see if you can reproduce and find the point of failure?  (We can triage further once we have a better idea what's going on)