Google Killing Chrome Extensions with 1 Week Publishing Delays
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#2I really hope this gets changed as this currently makes fixing small changes a massive, and wanting to release a feature at the same time on a website and extension means the chrome version must be done a week in advance. This is really killing productivity
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#3Given how much malware the Chrome Web Store pushes, and how sensitive of data extensions have access to, actually taking the time to properly review updates is absolutely warranted.
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#4While this might be highly burdensome for developers, I much prefer the world where Google reviews even single-line changes to extensions.
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#5Does anyone else feel that the Chrome Webstore is completely neglected? https://presentio.us/view/c3c537
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#6A "5 line diff" is absolutely enough code to add something malicious.
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#7Given how much malware the Chrome Web Store pushes, and how sensitive of data extensions have access to, actually taking the time to properly review updates is absolutely warranted.
For a typo? Did you read the post?
If I update the text or change a typo they take a week to release the update. During this time I can't release another version of my app.
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#8A "5 line diff" is absolutely enough code to add something malicious.
Why does it take a week to accept/deny that...?
Note that they aren't actually DOING anything in this week.
The Polar extension is literally just sitting waiting for someone to approve it because I updated the images.
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#9Given how much malware the Chrome Web Store pushes, and how sensitive of data extensions have access to, actually taking the time to properly review updates is absolutely warranted.
For a typo? Did you read the post? If I update the text or change a typo they take a week to release the update. During this time I can't release another version of my app.
They don't know you only fixed a typo until they've had time to review it
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#10While you are, of course, welcome to call upon Google to improve the review speed, there are obvious things you can do on your side as well.
First up: improve the QA process on your extension to avoid having to do 5-line diffs every few days.
In the meantime, you can offer your users to switch to "developer mode" and install the extension manually.
I personally would be against the centralized nature of Chrome extensions world anyway (which, by definition, leads to bottlenecks, for dubious benefits), but at one point Google claimed there were 180,000+ extensions in the web store, and if only 0,1% of those get updated every week, that's 180 extensions to be reviewed every week.