chrome.extension not available when called from extension scripts in Chromium but works on Chrome
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Chromium Browser |
Unknown
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Unknown
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chromium-browser (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Chad Miller |
Bug Description
When I updated to 13.10 and Chromium 29.0.1547.
chrome.extension is not available: 'extension' is not allowed for specified context type content script, extension page, web page, etc.). [VM] binding (22):427
Following from anywhere that called chrome.
chromium-browser:
Installed: 29.0.1547.
Candidate: 29.0.1547.
Version table:
*** 29.0.1547.
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
tags: | removed: patch |
Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Chad Miller (cmiller) |
Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
If it is deprecated in Chromium, then most likely, Chrome is keeping that part in so that extensions will continue to work while their developers work on updating the extensions.