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For the last week or so, stats on my Chrome Extension have stopped being reported.
I recently released an update which corresponds with those dates but there was no code change that should have caused the stats change.
The only thing I can think that caused this is because the app was renamed with the update. Does anyone have any evidence of this causing issues?
this has been happening for years at the chrome store. sometimes it takes many days for stats to show, and some days are never updated. it usually happens on the same dates to most developers. mine is now also missing stats for several days.
if you link your extension with google analytics, you can then see installs from analytics but its not the same, as the chrome stats also substract uninstalls (not tracked in analytics).
To link the store with analytics, go to "Edit" in the chrome developer dashboard, scroll down to the "analytics" section and enter an analytics ID. Then you can use the analytics page to view your stats.
I couldnt find an official link but this one covers setting the ID:
http://www.asked.press/you-can-add-a-google-analytics-id-to-your-projects/2272765/
To view your install stats from analytics, do a Report on Behavior:Site content:content drilldown.
Use primary dimension "Page path level 1" to compare views (/webstore/) versus installs (/track_install/).
Drill-down on either to get more stats (for example views per country or language).
If you drill-down on track_install, your "Page path level 2" views will now be divided by:
/detail/search/related_tab/wall/ and others like "large marquee" (while you are an editors choice and shown in the front-page)
These tells you where the user saw and clicked to install your extension (Directly from a search, from the details page, from a marquee, etc).
More stuff can be done. If you set-up an analytics custom goal to count the times a url with prefix "/track_install/" is hit, you can more easily track installs from the mobile analytics app or set-up analytics custom alerts (for example if installs go over a certain number daily)
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I'm living in Ukraine and maybe you know that we have some serious problems in our country. Ukraineans nowadays have no rights and almost everyone who trying to do something about it(fight for democratic ideals) are treated as enemy of the state. Police kidnap own people and torture them in prisons.
I'm an author of Chrome extension and this is my way to fight against tyranny. Still i'm worrying for myself and my relatives that someone could somehow find my personal information through its page in the store. And you need a credit card to register chrome extension in store(onetime $5 payment) so all my information is linked to my account in store.
So my question is next: could my personal info can be found through extension page in the store ? And maybe there is a way to hide such info..?
You should probably use a completely separate Google Account than the one you ordinarily use for uploading this extension. The webstore does show other apps created by the same author, so if you were to upload multiple extensions from the same account, and it was known who created the other extensions, that would be one way to tie it back to you. The other things that could tie an extension back to you are the contents of the extension (e.g. if you had your own personally identifying information in the HTML or JavaScript embedded in the extension code). Another way that they could attempt to unmask you is by sending an email with a virus to this account (the webstore does provide a way to contact the extension's author, I believe).
Google does comply with valid legal requests. Interestingly, Google's Transparency report doesn't seem to show any data on requests for user data from Ukraine. I doubt that, faced with a request to de-anonymize a dissident who has otherwise done nothing wrong, that Google would comply. That being said, as a political dissident, it's always better to be safe than sorry. For making the registration payment, you might want to use MaskMe or a similar masking service. You might also want to use a VPN for all of this so that all your activities (both encrypted and not) occur outside of Ukraine.
Anyway, that is a very interesting question, and I wish you the best of luck in restoring santity and democracy over in that part of the world.
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Google Chrome showed me this message a small div kind of popup.
The upgrade completed successfully.
Google Chrome has successfully upgraded your extension with the new ToFind service.
Continue using toFind services
learn more
I don't know when this got installed I never installed anything during this period
I remember installing a software that installed the superfish search plugin(again without my knowledge).
Neither did Kaspersky detect it nor did Google Chrome give any warning.
I managed to uninstall it. But I still get the "find product" button on certain shopping website but I don't see any results.
Now this has come up in the last few days when I had installed no knew software.
I think Google Chrome is vulnerable to this spyware/spamware.
Don't even know what is is
Anybody seen this and know how to uninstall it.
It does not show up in the extensions. I have just a handfull of extensions
Gone through a lot of research basically found nothing on the web, after reviewing all programs installed and extensions for "ToFind" which gives no result.. and as suggested above removed all search engines (except google) from Chrome I still get the annoying floating search thingee on all http pages.
Went on and review the site tofind.info, where the search's setting is pointing to, which reveals a bit more info:
"...The "To Find" functionalities are added by browser add-ons and are available directly using "To Find" add-ons or by partners that publish their add-ons combined with the "To Find" functionalities to their add-ons as addition to their functionalities."
Now Im pretty sure this is something to do with the extensions I have, which may have been bundled with this service.
Once I get to this it doesn't take long for me to pinpoint it by disabling and enabling extensions... for me, it is the "BarDeCo: QR Code Decoder & Encoder/Generator 1.0.0.8" which I need to disable and remove that icon. The thing is, I had this extension for ages, but just recently this search thing pops up.. so it is a bit of annoying and is revealing some weakness in the control Chrome has on its extensions, it doesn't tell user what has changed (like android or iphone apps).
Anyway, hope it helps.
I just managed my search engines in Chrome settings and removed Live Search, Yahoo, and Ask.com from my default search engines, and the "toFind" button disappeared.
I didn't check after doing each one, so I don't know which was the culprit.
I left Bing and Google.
You can find them here: chrome://settings/searchEngines
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I have developed an extension for Google Chrome, but if I host the app on the Chrome Web Store there are no options to monetize the extension. This, to me, is a complete missed segment of the market, as I am sure developers would love to come up with creative applications and generate revenue for them!
I can't seem to find any alternative site/marketplace that would allow me to sell this extension though. I know that Firefox is building an app store to compete with Google and other HTML5 based app stores, but that doesn't help me too much either.
Is there any way I can.
Host my extension on either my own server or another app marketplace?
Provide some type of payment gateway with licensing that prevents users from downloading
a copy of the .crx and illegally distributing it?
I have a great little app that I don't want to give it away for free. Any Ideas?
Google says that the ability to sell extensions is "coming soon". Untill then, you can always self-host or turn your extension into a packaged app (see Google's notes for selling packaged apps, which are fundamentally identical to extesnions, but add an icon to the home screen.)
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"New" packaged apps (since the advent of manifest_version: 2) are quite different from extensions and have access to a completely separate set of APIs. Extensions are meant for browser interaction (manipulating tabs, cookies, history, etc.), whereas apps are meant to be closer to standalone programs.
As far as I know, there is no alternative marketplace for paid extensions.
Anyway, you can always host the extension on your own server:
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/hosting.html
I appreciate the help from everyone. I think there would be a market for paid extensions. Mozilla is making a market for HTML5 apps, Facebook is rolling out a Market for HTML5 apps, but nothing is up and running for Extensions or Add-Ons.
Most Extensions, like mine, provide a time saver and efficiency-play on the users experience with the web.
Efficiency is something that can always, and should always be monetized. Part of the reason there are so many minimalistic chrome and firefox extensions is because there is no incentive for developers to build comprehensive solutions that are free.
Is there any way that if I do Host my own Extension, which I am more than capable of doing so, that I could put something in place that would prevent users from openly sharing my extension? Maybe keep the extension "unpackaged" so people couldn't just email each other the crx file and openly share it?
Another option I was thinking about would include A log-on screen where a user would have to sign up with an account and then would be given access after they paid for the plugin online. Is there any wayto incorporate that Log-On information into the plugin?
Thoughts?
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Looking for an issue tracker for a medium-sized web application open project with a distributed team. We are planning to run this on our own server. It must be very easy for new users to submit new issues, and it must integrate well with other software.
Our major requirements, in descending order of importance:
open source
capable of very new-user-friendly bug submit
submitting new issue must be as easy as possible, with only a single screen to fill out (after registration), and few fields visible (e.g. just "summary" and "description" would be good)
Google Code is an example of the sort of interface we like; Bugzilla's Bugzilla instance (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi) is an example of the sort of new bug submit interface that we would NOT like
it's fine if the default submit interface is not new-user-friendly as long as this is easily modifiable using templates/skins. It would be great to have an "advanced view" for bug editing with additional fields (such as who the issue is assigned to), in addition to the simple view for new user bug submission
has API; or, supports other applications concurrently accessing its db backend (we want to query and modify the issues from other, separate software running on another server)
Other desirable criteria, in descending order of importance:
not frustrating in daily use
has a relatively large community
integrates well with hg (mercurial)
amenable to integration with external:
support desk/request tracking software
project management software
auth systems (and/or supports OpenID login)
modular; if we modify the issue tracker, we want to release those improvements as a module that is easy for others to install
amenable to having some sort of simple, easy-to-use issue importance voting system, e.g. stars on Google code; we intend create or modify such a component to plugin to our own external voting system
amenable to integration with SugarCRM
When I say "amenable to", I mean that we are willing to code an extension to the issue tracker ourselves if necessary, however, the issue tracker's architecture should be amenable to that sort of extension.
Issue trackers which also include support desk or project management features are a plus provided that we can choose to integrate external software instead of using the included stuff. We don't need another wiki (we already have one that we like).
According to Google searches (see the comments), the most popular open source issue trackers are trac, bugzilla, mantis, RT (and possibly Launchpad's). I've also included Redmine because I've never seen a recent comparison between any of these issue trackers and Redmine in which someone had something bad to say about Redmine, and on polls Redmine sometimes beats these others. Feel free to suggest others (bearing in mind that one of the criteria is "relatively large community").
There are undoubtedly multiple good issue trackers out there; many of those listed above claim to be extensible and integrable with other software. What would be most helpful would be direct comparisons between issue trackers by people who have used more than one.
How do these compare to each other on extensibility, integratability, and skinnability?
If you have used more than one of these, which of them would you recommend, and which others have you used?
Which of these are already integrated with a large number of auth systems/support desk systems/etc?
Comments explaining why a particular popular open-source issue tracker (especially one of those listed above) is NOT suitable for our situation are very welcome; this will save me time.
thanks!
Redmine. Been using for a while. Simply excellent.
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Is it risky to have dependency on a open source service?
Unlike a open source dll or componenent the service obviously needs to be constantly running, therefore is it a business risk to rely on it? What happens if the open source service disappears for whatever reason?
The service under question would not be used for a business critical application but if successfull it will obviously gain in importance?
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If it's really "Open Source" (as opposed to merely free), you can download the source and run it yourself it the original provider goes away. Of course, you'd want to download the source ahead of time, because if the service provider goes away, there's not guarantee that there will be a site to download it from. Also, you'd probably want to keep backups of the data for yourself if you can.
But if you're misusing the term "open source" to mean a free service like the Google Maps API, then yeah, if it goes away, you're boned. But if Google Maps goes away, so is half the net.
What exactly is an "open source service"?
Any old website that offers an API? Yup, depending on it is a risk - they could go under or start charging a fee
Or a site that publishes the software it's running under an open source license? Just download a copy and if the site goes away, you always have the option to run it yourself
The better question is this:
What happens if your paid enterprise you rely on goes under, and you're left without any code whatsoever, and no support?
With that in retrospect, Open-source guarantees a future. All you have to do is find somebody to hack it. Proprietary on the other hand, legal hilarity ensues.
IMHO, the same as a closed source service.
Both, usually, have the same chances of being closed, with the usual surprises of course, as also Google and Microsoft close services without any previous notice.
Same as Paul says, you can run that service if it gets very important, if it closes, or you need big things of it.
But most important thing, appart from being open or closed source, is the access to your data... in case the service closes or you need to move away... will you have access to all your raw data for moving?
Probably yes. But if it is not a mission critical application, it might be okay.
I personally would try to avoid it just because of its vague future. But you never really know whether a commercial service will live through next year.
Just don't bind tightly to this service and not design strictly for it. Design so as to facilitate switch to another similar service in the future or even to a very different approach.
Design for the family of similar services. And always think of an escape plan in case this service goes away or even all services of the class.
I've also had similar considerations about this service: http://www.webservicex.net
Seems to be freely accessible but who really runs it and who can guarantee it will be there tomorrow?
As for tomorrow, even Google Mail happens to be down at some days. What do you want then of a free open-source service? :)