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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Dec 28
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Feature Request: increased timing granularity, for programmatic, periodic (monthly) popup reminders

Reported by reese.ho...@pwc.com, Dec 21

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
The employer requires a monthly reminder be added to an existing, custom Chrome extension, with two different activation mechanisms: 
 - once a month, the reminder be displayed when opening the Chrome browser
 - once a month, the reminder be displayed at a specified time (e.g. 1st Wednesday of month at 9 A.M.).

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
Prior feature requests for similar, programmatic display of popup/background page have been closed with status "WontFix" - e.g. issue id=30491

Did this work before? No 

Does this work in other browsers? N/A

Chrome version: 71.0.3578.98  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version:
 
Components: Platform>Extensions
Labels: Needs-Triage-M71
Cc: phanindra.mandapaka@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug Triaged-ET Target-73 M-73 FoundIn-71 FoundIn-72 FoundIn-73 Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks for filing the issue...

As per comment #0, it seems to be a feature request. Hence, marking it as untriaged for further inputs from Dev team.

Thanks...!
Cc: rdevlin....@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
We already have a bug for allowing programmatically opening extension bubbles (issue 436489), but there are some interesting security UX issues that need to be resolved before we can do that.  However, there are plenty of other options here: using a notification - or, if you wanted to be heavier-handed, an alert - will both display information to the user and are triggerable programmatically at a set time.

Given there's a tracking bug for opening the popup itself, and given there are reasonable alternatives, I'm going to close this out, but let me know if there's a reason this doesn't cover the use case.

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