How to open a url while uninstalling Google Chrome Extension?

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I was able to do it in Firefox using nsIObserverService. Is there anything similar? Any link to proper documentation will be very helpful.

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 16 '22 at 14:55

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You can now set an uninstall url as of Version 41 of chrome.

hths, future people who read this question.

Put it in background or service worker JavaScript file chrome.runtime.setUninstallURL('your URL here');

edited Aug 16 '22 at 14:55

Baisnabi

answered Mar 19 '15 at 10:19

JamesKn

I suggest adding a unique identifier to the url and calling your backend to record the uninstall, followed by a redirect to some uninstall landing page or survey – Gibolt Feb 08 '17 at 06:24

shawnXiao · Answer 2 · 2013-10-05T08:47:30.870

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YThere is a new api may be do this thing after the version 20.

chrome.runtime.setUninstallUrl

also has the install hook:

chrome.runtime.onInstalled

For the browser below 20, you have to declare the permission in manifest of "management". And then bind open new tab method to the onUninstalled

edited Oct 05 '13 at 08:47

answered Oct 05 '13 at 07:55

shawnXiao

-1: `setUninstallUrl` hasn't made it to stable Chrome yet and the `onUninstalled` event of the management API is not called for the current extension. – abyx Jan 19 '14 at 09:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 07 '10 at 12:24

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There are no hooks for uninstall within the Chrome extension API. Feel free to star the following feature if you want to see it included:

answered Jul 07 '10 at 12:24

Mohamed Mansour

No, but this is easy to work around. See [FAQ Entry](http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/faq.html#faq-firstrun) – Brian Jan 18 '12 at 17:29
Use first run! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2399389/chrome-extension-first-run – Mohamed Mansour Jan 18 '12 at 18:38
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Good news. Looks like it's available now. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/runtime#method-setUninstallURL – zambrey Jul 15 '15 at 20:37

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