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Hello there,

firstly, thank you very much for this extension.

Recently (since the last 2 version if I recall correctly) the extension is using excessive amounts of GPU and CPU processing power. Enough that my laptop fan is running at full speed while I'm actually doing nothing. While idling Process Explorer tells me that it uses constantly up to 20% of my CPU and almost 50% of my GPU.

I'm on Windows 10 x64 Version 1809. My laptop uses an Intel Core i7-8550U, has 16GB of RAM and an Intel UHD Graphics 620.

Would be nice if you could take a look into that.

I have created a WebExtension, but i really don't want to publish this Extension in the Chrome Store. Is a publication in the store required, when i want to check for Extension updates? I Have tried to use your extension as a template and have added "update_url" in manifest.json pointing to a XML file in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/..., the file is available and the URL works, but the message "No update info available" is not gone yet. Can you please give some hints, how i can solve this?

Hi, firstly the logos should be updated to reflect the new Chromium logo. Second, why have you not published this to the chrome web store. I recently made an account, and have added these extensions.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromium-vector-icon-pain/cnlndebkegcfnbiknohgneobakigplhf
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/crunchbangplusplus-scroll/mfindlbbleadbcpkgbkbfojnghelnfil
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cog-system-info-viewer/bkapefioegaebnkbjpfbbemmmcholeii
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/thorium-scrollbars/ilhogmofjjmlbjoceipichhgfnnbldcn
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/thorium-material-dark-the/dahfohiipmpcppjbablgfoggbogdmddp

I can update the logos and publish it for you, as well as update it to manifest v3 so that it will continue working in the future.

Hi there and thanks for your work. It's appreciated.
The plugin icon at the toolbar in chromium always shows the "NEW" badge again and again after some minutes/hours, even if there is no update. I click on the icon, but then there is just this for example:

Chromium v100.0.4896.127
Current: v100.0.4896.127
Revision: 1086 (16.4.2022, 00:51:08)
Settings
Last update: 16.4.2022, 14:45:20

... nothing new.

Hello again,

another (possible) bug: I sometimes have the problem that the extension is taking ages (haven't measured yet exactly how long, but it is running unchanged now for over an hour) for it to actually finish its search for updates ("Waiting for data...").
I don't yet know which combination of browser restart(s), extension reloads and just waiting reliably resolves this.

See the screenshots below for the error messages.

EDIT:
With v1.7.3 this still occurs but the error in background.js is gone! Errors in popup.js are still there. (With the same error messages.)

Hey there,

At the moment, the notifier uses the user agent to determine whether or not the current browser is out of date. This may not be as reliable in the future as UA reduction is slated to start rolling out soon. This behaviour can be tested via the #reduce-user-agent or #freeze-user-agent (pre-M93).

A more reliable way to handle this situation in the future may be to use navigator.userAgentData.getHighEntropyValues(["uaFullVersion"]), with the current method as a fallback.

• Additional resources:
  • Chromium Blog: Update on User-Agent String Reduction in Chrome
  • Chromium updates > User-Agent Reduction
  • Migrate to User-Agent Client Hints
  • UA-CH JS test

Thanks,
Elliott

If I enable the "Track Extensions" option, the menu no longer shows up. Clicking on the icon will produce a small, thin, blank menu. Also, there is no #extension-mime-request-handling flag to change. I'm using Win64-stable Chromium 78.0.3904.70.

this issue is very similar to #39, but it's not the same issue probs.

i have already triggered the re-fetch and reopened the browser several times. will probably try reinstalling the extension

Don't work since Monday. Any idea?
I updated now manually to Build #4646
I disabled the extension and activated it... no update of the last search from Monday the 13th

Dear @kkkrist,

I tried to install your notifier in a fresh installation of Chromium for macOs, Version 87.0.4280.88 and got the following message:

Package is invalid: "CRX_REQUIRED_PROOF_MISSING".

I am using macOs 10.15.7 and downloaded your latest release version from Github.

Regards,
Felix

Hallo,

seit ein paar Wochen wird die Versionsnummer vom Win64 Dev official nicht mehr im Addon angezeigt. Auf der offiziellen Website ebenso nicht mehr.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Hi !

There is no update for "Bookmark Menu", but there is still a notification :

i.e. don't ever fetch extensions update info without the user consciously enabling it

Currently we're retrieving extension version info from https://clients2.google.com/service/update2. Unfortunately Google seems to have stripped version info from responses making our extension list all installed extensions under "No update info available". So we need to reverse-engineer how regular Chrome handles updates now and find another way to get the info.

As I've stopped using this extension myself a while ago and currently have hardly time to spare, it would be nice if someone else could do the reverse-engineering part. I'd happily update the api calls and push a new version once that's done.

Example API call:

GET /service/update2/crx?x=id%3Dklbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg%26uc&prodversion=77.0.3865.90

Response before update:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gupdate
  xmlns="http://www.google.com/update2/response" protocol="2.0" server="prod">
  <daystart elapsed_days="4663" elapsed_seconds="48885"/>
  <app appid="klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg" cohort="" cohortname="" status="ok">
    <updatecheck
      codebase="https://clients2.googleusercontent.com/crx/blobs/QgAAAC6zw0qH2DJtnXe8Z7rUJP2HvPGsVbNocCmvAYPMRjisorNmqhpnTLF5kfM_x5cjrac1ZvHxGOLo21Olggkw2LJ7BwtZ42flI_pnI31sOOUpAMZSmuUe58K32zpo3MVYzpqHgPeyd42LRQ/extension_7_1_0_0.crx"
      fp="1.dc8b9ef8af7ed4d8b9d5ee658395cc034e7d00042bd7beffe6a20f897daccab3"
      hash_sha256="dc8b9ef8af7ed4d8b9d5ee658395cc034e7d00042bd7beffe6a20f897daccab3"
      protected="0"
      size="262658"
      status="ok"
      version="7.1.0"
    />
  </app>
</gupdate>

Current response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gupdate
  xmlns="http://www.google.com/update2/response" protocol="2.0" server="prod">
  <daystart elapsed_days="5215" elapsed_seconds="14970"/>
  <app appid="klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg" cohort="1::" cohortname="" status="ok">
    <updatecheck _esbAllowlist="false" status="noupdate"/>
  </app>
</gupdate>

Since the last version of the "Update Notifications Plugin" (1.8.6), the extension manager shows the same version number as "new" for many plug-ins. The information displayed is not correct; the plug-ins do not have this version number in the current version.

Would there be a chance one day to see the possibility of updating the marmaduke archive for linux?

I am getting this error when trying to install the plugin, even under developer mode. I have just installed chromium, so it's the latest version (79.0.3945.88). Any idea what I could try?

Would it be possible to add and track the Chromium for 64-bit macOS on Arm? Not currently supported.

Hi,

In Tags, you don't list the Hibbiki tag? I use the Hibbiki version to get the Sync and Google integration included.

Thanks
Kevin

When openening Chromium, the extension instantly displays "Error" in red.

Error message is "TypeError: Failed to fetch".

Current: v96.0.4664.45
Revision: 929512 (19.11.2021, 02:46:54)
Tracking win64-stable-ungoogled-marmaduke

Can I provide other useful information to help debug this?

I have a few extension installed on my Chromium (win64-stable-ungoogled-marmaduke)

I also have Chromium Web Store installed.

I have the latest version 1.4.4.3 of this extension but Chromium Notifier tells me "There is an update v1.4.4.1" ??
It is old but there is always "New" notification on the Chromium Notifier icon.

Please check this.

Happened after updating to latest.

1. Add management permissions
2. Get extensions version info from proxy to circumvent CORS and pool requests ➡️kkkrist/chromium-extension-service
3. Compare versions
4. Notify if necessary

Hi, the extension showed an error icon. This is the content:

Is this normal?

When I first wrote this extension, I didn't know that you can relax CORS restrictions for certain URLs by adding them to the manifest's permissions (this is my first extension after all). So I created a proxy service to bypass them, foremost for URLs pointing to the Chrome Web Store. But the proxy has also helped a great deal debugging problems. That's why I've kept it in place even after learning it's actually not needed.

Now I've learned through this comment that Chromium can block extensions not listed in the Chrome Web Store from working at all. So it's time to to list it. As the proxy solution is probably not going to make it through the review process, I want to ditch it. This should be fairly easy as most of the code needed can be ported from the proxy.

Update:

As the request headers sent to Google when directly fetching extension info may contain lots of cookies with personal and adtech-related data, I now plan to make by-passing the proxy optional. Users then can choose to strip their personal data by using the proxy or trust Google with it. If this will keep the extension from being listed in the store, so be it.

https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/publish