I always have concern about my online privacy and this question is about Chrome extension. When you install an extension, it asks for some permissions. If in later updates it updates its permission requirements and asks more, will the user get notified? Or it just silently get them (since it's already been installed)? Thanks.
Will the user get notified when a Chrome extension changed its permission requirement in an update
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I think that the problem sometimes occurs when the web server you are downloading the PDF from does not serve the PDF with the correct MIME type.
When the web server serves a PDF with the correct MIME type, Chrome previews it. When the web server serves a PDF with the incorrect or generic MIME type (application/octet-stream), Chrome downloads it.
If the server returns a Content-Type of text/html Chrome will display/open the PDF directly in the browser. However, if the server returns a Content-Type of application/pdf then the browser will prompt the user to save/download the PDF.
Download a windows group policy template "Google Update Administrative Template" from Google Site.
Open the editor by typing "gpedit.msc" into the search button on the start menu and click the resulting link
Navigate to User Configuration - Administrative Templates
Right click on Administrative Templates, select add/remove templates from menu bar.
In the popup box click add button and navigate to where you downloaded the GoogleUpdate.adm file and then click close button
You should find a new entry under Local Computer Policy - Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - Classic Administrative Templates called Google
Navigate to Administrative Templates - Google - Google Update - Applications - Google Chrome.
Right click on Update Policy Override and select edit.
Click enabled button and in the scrollbar list under Policy choose Updates disabled and click OK
To be sure that update not occur, Go to Start > Run > msconfig > Startup > Disable GoogleUpdater.exe
You have now stopped Google Updater from checking for updates for Google Chrome
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Chrome is pretty strict about permissions and never grants any extension any permission silently. User authorization is always required.
If the update for the extension asks for more permissions and you don't grant them, the update might fail, or the application will fail when it does an operation that requires this permission.