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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 712443
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Closed: Oct 26
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OS: Mac
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Type: Feature



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[Feature Request] Option to Auto-Restart Crashed Extensions

Reported by ravenise...@gmail.com, Oct 19

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Use Chrome
2. Watch Extensions Crash
3. Forced to click "reload crashed extension IF you catch it before the dialogue box crashes; poses a security risk.

What is the expected behavior?
Auto restart crashed extensions; esp important for security related extensions.

What went wrong?
Chrome does not have an option to auto reload crashed extensions forcing users to either click the ephemeral dialogue box or jump into the chrome hamburger menu, click extensions, locate crashed extension, and click "reload". An option to auto-reload crashed extensions would be very wise; 

WebStore page: Any extension

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 70.0.3538.67   Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.13
Flash Version: none

If there is a concern that crashes could re-occur multiple times causing some kind of memory issue, make it detect the time and only allow auto-reloading 3 times within a specific time frame.
 
Security Extensions can crash user is away from browser... leaving them clueless as to the potential security risk; an option to auto-restart extensions just makes sense.
If all icons have been hidden in the browser, users have no way of knowing if security extensions (or any extension) has crashed, if they are away from their browser. This can pose a serious security risk.
Labels: Needs-Triage-M70
Cc: viswa.karala@chromium.org
Labels: Triaged-ET Target-72 M-72 FoundIn-71 FoundIn-70 FoundIn-72
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks for filing the issue!

As per comment# 0 from the reporter, issue seems to be a Feature Request, hence marking it as Untriaged.

Thanks!
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
I had came back to my browser today, to find 2/3'rds of my security extensions disabled, but only noticed after youtube ad's re-appeared. This is technically more of a bug fix for a security risk than a feature request.
Crashed rather.  Thanks for taking notice! 
Because these crashes have become so frequent with the latest releases of Chrome browser... I see extensions crashing sometimes a dozen or more times a day. This is a bug issue, and having the ability to auto-reload extensions is the only solution I can think of for these bugs.
Some institutions require the use of paid subscriptions for certain features for security extensions on hundreds of computers serving tens of millions of customers financial exchanges. They cannot keep track of and re-enable these extensions always. Here is an example, sandblast extension for Chrome: https://www.checkpoint.com/customer-stories/edenred/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/check-point-sandblast-age/bnbpncoilnpdbcbfcegbjocobjppndlh?hl=en
Mergedinto: 712443
Status: Duplicate (was: Untriaged)

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