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Status: Assigned
Owner:
markchang@chromium.org
Cc:
rdevlin....@chromium.org
susan.boorgula@chromium.org
jawag@chromium.org
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OS: Linux , Windows , Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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add optional "reason" label for each permission of the permissions required list for the "add extension" dialog

Reported by wesam.we...@gmail.com, Nov 20 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. install an extension from the Chrome web store (e.g Vimium)
2. check the permissions required to install list in the add extension dialog
3. wonder why this extension requires this many permissions.

What is the expected behavior?
(optionally for the developer) 
have a reason next to each permission in the list
explaining why it's required and for what functionality.

What went wrong?
there's no reasons listed for each required permission in list of the install dialog

Did this work before? No 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 70.0.3538.102  Channel: n/a
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Comment 1 by krajshree@chromium.org, Nov 20

Labels: Needs-Triage-M70

Comment 2 by susan.boorgula@chromium.org, Nov 20

Cc: susan.boorgula@chromium.org
Components: Platform>Extensions
Labels: -Type-Bug Triaged-ET Target-72 M-72 FoundIn-71 FoundIn-70 FoundIn-72 OS-Mac OS-Windows Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
wesam.wesam.co@ Thanks for the issue.

As per the above description, this looks like a feature request to add a reason next to each permission for an extension, explaining why it's required and for what functionality.
Marking this as Untriaged for further updates from Dev.

Thanks..

Comment 3 by rdevlin....@chromium.org, Nov 30

Cc: rdevlin....@chromium.org jawag@chromium.org
Components: -Platform>Extensions Webstore
Owner: markchang@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
We've talked about this a number of times.  We probably wouldn't surface this in the dialog, but rather in the webstore.  Over to markchang@ for triage.
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