chromium doesn't handle extension upgrades

Bug #1035329 reported by Ken VanDine
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WebApps: unity-chromium-extensions
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unity-chromium-extension (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Chromium copies the content of the browser extension into the local home directory. This isn't great considering it is installed globally as well, but the real problem is when the installed extension gets updated the new version never gets copied into the home directory. At a minimum I would say chromium should copy the latest extension on each start.

And to make matters worse, if a user clicks the trash icon in chrome://extensions they can never get the extension back as it gets blacklisted. I think system wide installed extensions shouldn't be removable, just disabled.

Changed in unity-chromium-extension:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Critical
Changed in unity-chromium-extension:
assignee: nobody → Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)
Changed in unity-chromium-extension:
assignee: Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre) → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)
Changed in unity-chromium-extension:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
assignee: Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) → nobody
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity-chromium-extension - 1.9.2-0ubuntu1

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unity-chromium-extension (1.9.2-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - fixed bug that caused the extension to load (LP: #1035329)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:41:18 -0400

Changed in unity-chromium-extension (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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