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You should have been around before chrome books when any extension could do whatever it wanted without any permissions at all. Your understanding of history is
by dcow 4y ago
You should have been around before chrome books when any extension could do whatever it wanted without any permissions at all. Your understanding of history is missing some key pieces. Over time, Google has generally locked these APIs down not opened them up.
- thelopa 4y agoBrowser JS definitely never had the ability to unmount storage volumes before Chromebooks existed.
- dcow 4y agoOh but your Java applet surely could.
- loa_in_ 4y agoAnd nothing would prevent an extension from loading an applet
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y agoExtensions could, and this action could be triggered from browser JS.