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I think he means for developers. There's no way to distribute extensions for free now, where before they could be self-hosted.
by tokenizerrr 13y ago
I think he means for developers. There's no way to distribute extensions for free now, where before they could be self-hosted.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> There's no way to distribute extensions for free now, where before they could be self-hosted. Unless I misunderstand the blocking of non-web-store extensions, you can distribute extension for free, just not to Windows users.
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- iamjustin 13y ago> Just not to Windows users. Oh okay, so you'd just lose out on ~90% of the market?
- hansjorg 13y agoThey can still be self-hosted, but you're not able to install just by clicking on them. You have to download the crx file and then drag it into the extensions window.
- tokenizerrr 13y agoCurrently, yes. But in the article linked [1] above they claim that that too will be prohibited starting january [1]: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-from-malicious.html http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/protecting-windows-users-fr...