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Simon Willison

@waldi not even on a www.google.com page? I can't access chrome.runtime on other sites but it works for me on Google pages

10 July at 15:14 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
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waldi

@simon Nope. Maybe a change to the commercial Chrome.

10 July at 18:14 | Open on chaos.social
waldi

@simon Wow. The rabbit hole is deeper.

In Debian Chromium
- the new tab page with google can access chrome.runtime
- the new tab page with something else can't
- a tab with www.google.com can't

So there is clearly a special case for www.google.com somewhere.

10 July at 18:36 | Open on chaos.social
waldi
waldi

@simon Okay, one reason is: that extension is not enabled in the Debian build. And it seems the chrome.runtime API is made available if any extension allows the current page to communicate. Just no idea yet, why the new tab page can do that sometimes.

10 July at 19:56 | Open on chaos.social
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