I was trying to create a Chrome extension that hides all the existing extension icons (can't be disabled), is there any way to do it?
Extensions cannot change chrome's settings or appearance(with a few exeptions).
Extension apis like you are suggesting would be very invasive and most likely unwanted from most users.
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Is there a programmatic way to only show a browser extension's icon in the extension toolbar if the extension has permissions to run on the site currently being viewed in the active tab?
I'm sure at one point this was the default behaviour for Chrome / Firefox extension icons, but it seems they have changed them so all extension icons show all the time, no matter what site you are visiting.
This can be quite annoying if you have a lot of extensions installed, as the extensions toolbar gets pretty crowded.
Have i missed something here?
I'm trying to allow users to add an Adblock Whitelist via a Chrome extension. To allow this there is the API like such:
1) Add The Ebates WhiteList
However if I add that link to a Chrome extension popup window the link doesn't go anywhere. My guess is that the Chrome extension execution context isn't aware of Adblock/able to support that API. Is anyone who is more of an extension wizard than myself able to verify that I'm correct in my assumption and that there is no workaround? Thanks!
I use the extension New Tab Wallpaper for Google Chrome. I am wondering if it's possible to modify it so that it doesn't show the annoying Settings button on the bottom right corner. Or at least doesn't appear unless you move your cursor down there.
screenshot of new tab page
Looking at the extension in the Chrome Web Store, it doesn't look like the author linked the project to a homepage or an open source code repository such as GitHub.
That being said, if you really wanted to alter the extension, you can find the code on your computer, see this answer regarding where to find the extension on your computer for various operating systems. A Google Chrome extension is simply HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
i wanted to build a custom browser install that would fit the following specs, i found ways to do it using enterprise deployement, but my intent is to distribute it to friends and family without having to go through the enterprise distribution.
Can be sourced from Firefox or Chromium (or even other as webkit)
Should be easy to customize (ideally no C++ coding)
Should be able to embed extension or hard code the extension within the browser. (i've coded a custom adblock that is lighter and faster than the ones on FF or Chrome store and would also like to embed TOR connection extension)
Remove the ability to install other extensions (i want to ensure this browser cannot be victim of bloatware extensions installs)
Customize UI
Protect the browser against Search engine / HP / New tab settings change.
If you could point me to the right direction it would be awesome and i'll make sure to share this browser's link here once done.
I just saw this in the corner of my eye and figured I'd share this question/answer to possibly help you:
Standard way to build a Chrome extension into Chromium
I'd like to display a window or a dialog box without a title bar from chrome extension. The extension plugs into file browser on Chrome OS. I've seen some examples that use jquery to accomplish this but all of them use browser tabs and are applicable to chrome browser. Tabs are not available to my extension so I'm not quite sure how to do that.