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Status: WontFix
Owner:
rdevlin....@chromium.org
Closed: Dec 6
Cc:
jawag@chromium.org
swarnasree.mukkala@chromium.org
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Regression



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window.chrome.webstore is 'undefined'

Reported by danylo.l...@gmail.com, Dec 5 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.80 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Insert the following snippet into the script or a Dev Tools console.
(typeof InstallTrigger !== 'undefined') ? 'firefox' : (!!window.chrome && !!window.chrome.webstore) ? 'chrome' : null;
It returns 'null'.
The cause of this one is the issue with the 'window.chrome.webstore', which is undefined in Chrome 71, but works in Chrome 70.
This API is not marked as deprecated and not mentioned in release notes, so this should be a bug.

What is the expected behavior?
The expected behavior is to return 'chrome' string, so this snippet will properly detect Chrome 

What went wrong?
Snippet returns 'null', because window.chrome.webstore is undefined

Did this work before? Yes 70

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 71.0.3578.80  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version:

Comment 1 by mmenke@chromium.org, Dec 5

Components: Platform>Extensions

Comment 2 by phistuck@gmail.com, Dec 5 

It was supported for inline installations and once that feature got removed, there was no purpose for chrome.webstore, so it was removed as well, albeit with no specific announcement.

However, that is kind of what you get when browser sniffing using features (feels like the document.all-to-detect-Internet-Explorer of the 2010s with Chrome), so I would not count on it being reverted. You better change your code.

Comment 3 by woxxom@gmail.com, Dec 5 

Quoting the documentation https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/inline_installation

  Important: As of 06/12/2018, inline installation is deprecated. 
  For more information, read our Chromium Blog post [1] and Migration FAQ [2].

  [1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2018/06/improving-extension-transparency-for.html
  [2]: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/inline_faq

Quoting [1]:

  In early December 2018, the inline install API method will be removed from Chrome 71.

Comment 4 by gov...@chromium.org, Dec 6

Labels: Needs-Triage-M71

Comment 5 by swarnasree.mukkala@chromium.org, Dec 6

Cc: swarnasree.mukkala@chromium.org jawag@chromium.org
Labels: Triaged-ET
It looks like the present behavior as WAI. As per comment#3 CC'ing jawag@ to provide further inputs on the issue.

Thanks.!

Comment 6 by rdevlin....@chromium.org, Dec 6

Owner: rdevlin....@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
As mentioned in #2 and #3, this is WAI.  Since inline installation is removed, so is the chrome.webstore property.

For detecting browser, you could look at the user agent string?
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