I'm trying to add a support page right in the extension window but all that I can find is adding a link to another page. I've included some pictures, as I don't know how to really describe the feature.
that's what I have currently, and below is what I want to have-
This is a screenshot of what I have on the dev page, concerning the support feature-
I'm not sure what I need to change, so any help would be appreciated! (Directed here from this chrome forum thread)
Go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/developer/dashboard
Click "Edit your User Feedback preferences"
Check the "Enable User Feedback for all my apps in Chrome Webstore." box.
Note that neither you nor your users will get notified of new posts made in the webstore support section, so you probably want to direct users to a third party support platform, such as issues on the project's Github repo.
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I have an unlisted extension published through the Chrome web store which is already being used. I have a new version which I would like to release just to testers initially, before a full roll out to everyone. Can this be done?
The same thing has been asked here but it was almost 9 years ago, and the answers disagree on whether it's possible or not:
How to publish new version of Chrome Extension only to testers
The short answer is "No, it can't be done for a published extension".
According to Chrome Web Store visibility descriptions, you must unpublish an extension before it can be published to trusted testers. Users who already have it installed will get updated to the new version.
In your case, you have to create a new extension with the new code, and a different name like "MyApp Beta" and publish it privately to the list of trusted testers.
Maybe you already know this, but you can install a chrome extension manually.
Go to chrome://extensions/ and check the box for Developer mode in the top right.
Click "Load unpacked exention"
Select the folder where your unzipped extension resides in.
So, you can send a zip/rar to your testers, let them follow the procedure and test the extension. Might be that you have to give it another name so as to not conflict with your earlier eversion, or you could ask your testers to delete the existing extension to avoid conflicts.
Well, the simplest way is to pack a .crx file of the tester-only extension then link to it via some cloud-hosting service like Google Drive. There is no way to do this through the Web Store. You could release a different extension as a beta channel though.
Not strictly related to publishing a full extension, but ... you could use feature toggling to control the visibility of new functionality? So wrap the new functionality in toggle checks and only turn the feature on based on some criteria you can decide in a custom roll-out strategy. See enter link description here for an open-source implementation of a feature toggle control system.
If you have a developer account and want to publish it on the chrome web store privately to just testers this is what you have to do:
Go to the Pricing and Distribution page of the extension during the publishing process
Click "Private"
Go to your developer account settings, and in the "Management" section, you can add trusted tester accounts.
You can change the status to public whenever your extension is ready.
As an end user, I would like to restrict the extensions to run only on certain domains. Like an extension that needs to enhance gmail, to only trigger on mail.google.com.
I am reposting this question from Limit Chrome Extension to certain URLs?
The OP wanted it for extension developer. But as an end user, I wanted this for protecting myself from rouge extension or just to make the page load faster without triggering all the extensions.
I found that the original post had the answer for this at https://stackoverflow.com/a/53315464/1500545
since the OP's need was for developers, I was not highly upvoted. Will post the answer here and accept it.
credit: https://stackoverflow.com/users/167897/wernight
As a user, with Chrome 71 (or maybe even before) with chrome://flags/#extension-active-script-permission (you may need to enable User consent for extension scripts flag) allows you to right click extension icons and select "This can read and change site data" then you can choose:
When you click the extension
On current-domain-name.com
On all sites (default)
I'm not sure if this is the correct exchange for this questions as I don't think it is explicitly programming related, but I can't think of a better place to ask the question.
I keep seeing this tab for chrome extensions that allows users to ask questions, suggest things or submit problems:
I haven't been able to find anything in the developer dashboard or in documentation about this tab. I know that I can get a support tab with a link by adding a url to the support link field in the project settings, but I can't figure out how to get the functionality shown here.
Go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/developer/dashboard
Click in the link:
Edit your User Feedback preferences: User Feedback is disabled
And then enable it.
It's the same answer for Where does the Chrome web store "Support" tab come from?, it works for Apps and extensions.
I wrote a simple Google Apps script and published it in the Chrome Web Store as an app (I guess "hosted" app. You can find the link here: http://bit.ly/1JTiKLC). I followed the instructions mentioned here:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/distribute-web-app
I specified all the required items in the checklist, AFAIK, including icons of the required size. The item is listed and I can download it. However, when it is added in the Chrome desktop launcher, it has the default "apps script" blue icon:
I want to change this but can't find any way to do so. The link above specifies that there is a way to do this for a new tab page (sec. Updating a web app's icon on the New Tab Page). First of all, I cannot see any link that says "specify an alternative image" anywhere as they say. Could someone elaborate on this. Secondly, is there a similar way to change the launcher icon for apps script webapps?
Ok, I found it. Here's the info for someone else who may have the same question: The link appears in the window just after you click "Publish>Register in Chrome Web Store..." in the apps script editor itself. It's not there in the developer dashboard. You can host the image publicly on any site which provides direct links, like imgur.
This will change the icon in the Chrome new page tab (or in "chrome://apps/") as well as the desktop launcher. Cheers :)
I'm interesting in developing Chrome Extension for Gmail.
Unfortunately I couldn't find any tutorials on this subject (demonstrating a simple action as adding a button).
I'm looking for adding a button to the compose toolbar, and creating a new tag/folder in gmail account.
Please, Help!
You should check out these APIS at https://github.com/joscha/gmailr, it is a fork of https://github.com/jamesyu/gmailr but the original author has been too busy to update it.