> "Building an extension for this should be very simple." Which is then followed, amusingly, by a developer who has tried to do it saying that in fact, it's no

> "Building an extension for this should be very simple." Which is then followed, amusingly, by a developer who has tried to do it saying that in fact, it's not that simple (without ridiculous permissions). But now it seems to have turned into a face-saving thing where the Chrome developers won't ever reverse the change or put in a configuration option because to do so would be to admit a mistake in public.