[Pkg-chromium-maint] sane chromium default flags - include --enable-remote-extensions

[Andrey Rahmatullin]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 03:14:08PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > It's not even about updating: the first version of chromium with this
> > build-time tweak simply disabled all already installed extensions for me
> > so they were not activated when I restarted chromium after that upgrade
> > session -- and hence were not shown in UI etc.
> > What's worse, it's futile to attemt to reinstall them: the settings tab
> > for the extensions works OK, the chromiums "extensions store" (whatever
> > its real name is, I dunno) works OK, just when you try to install an
> > extension, you get some mystical error message having nothing to do
> > with what Debian's build did, and with no hint at what to do next.
> 
> Do we know why this is ?  Is this an unintended side effect of some
> other change ?  Has someone done this deliberately and if so have they
> explained what they were trying to achieve ?
> 
> I can see that the behaviour you describe would be very annoying.
When updating extensions is disabled, it is a "good" thing that you cannot
install them and use installed ones.
That's what the original bug was about.

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WBR, wRAR
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