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wraith808:
I believe that Chrome updates extensions similarly to how Android updates apps: If it doesn't require any new permissions, it silently updates. If the new version requires new permissions that you haven't previously granted it, it still updates it, but disables it until you explicitly give the OK.
-Deozaan (May 14, 2015, 01:46 PM)
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In my (admittedly limited) experience with my Nook, it asks me, each and every time that an app wants to update. They're on my notification screen, and I have to respond in order to get it to actually download and install the updates.
Deozaan:
I believe that Chrome updates extensions similarly to how Android updates apps: If it doesn't require any new permissions, it silently updates. If the new version requires new permissions that you haven't previously granted it, it still updates it, but disables it until you explicitly give the OK.
-Deozaan (May 14, 2015, 01:46 PM)
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In my (admittedly limited) experience with my Nook, it asks me, each and every time that an app wants to update. They're on my notification screen, and I have to respond in order to get it to actually download and install the updates.
-wraith808 (May 14, 2015, 05:47 PM)
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That may be a Nook-specific customization, or you may have at some point disabled auto-updates in the Play store, in which case it would just notify you that there are available updates.
wraith808:
I believe that Chrome updates extensions similarly to how Android updates apps: If it doesn't require any new permissions, it silently updates. If the new version requires new permissions that you haven't previously granted it, it still updates it, but disables it until you explicitly give the OK.
-Deozaan (May 14, 2015, 01:46 PM)
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In my (admittedly limited) experience with my Nook, it asks me, each and every time that an app wants to update. They're on my notification screen, and I have to respond in order to get it to actually download and install the updates.
-wraith808 (May 14, 2015, 05:47 PM)
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That may be a Nook-specific customization, or you may have at some point disabled auto-updates in the Play store, in which case it would just notify you that there are available updates.
-Deozaan (May 14, 2015, 10:14 PM)
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That's it... I disabled auto-updates. Because... well, I like to know what I'm updated. I wonder if there is a setting for Chrome...
Nope.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/l3zOZeO-5-M
A few workarounds for it. But no way, apparently.
Another workaround:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27657617/how-to-disable-google-chrome-extension-autoupdate
Curt:
it was weird to study this page and then realize, there is no link to the version you all seem to prefer!
uBlock, the official project: https://chrismatic.io/ublock/
and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock/epcnnfbjfcgphgdmggkamkmgojdagdnn?hl=en (< I don't use Chrome, so I have no understanding of the "epcnnfbjfcgphgdmggkamkmgojdagdnn" part; what stupid kind of forgettable link is that?! Or does it perhaps mean that I was visiting but not using Chrome?).
FAQ: https://chrismatic.io/ublock/faq/
ewemoa:
I don't use Chrome, so I have no understanding of the "epcnnfbjfcgphgdmggkamkmgojdagdnn" part
-Curt (May 17, 2015, 01:55 AM)
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AFAICT, that's pretty normal for items appearing in the Chrome Web Store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/
Each of the app, extension, and theme links I examined had that kind of string at the end of its associated URL -- just figured it's for uniqueness sake, but have not verified.
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