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Alex313031 / Thorium-Win

Chromium fork for Windows named after radioactive element No. 90; Windows builds of https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium
https://thorium.rocks/
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question : Any way to remove Hangouts and PDF viewer extensions. #216

Closed vippium closed 1 month ago

vippium commented 1 month ago

Isn't there any way to remove these extensions from Thorium. It is known that thorium provides all features of chrome bcoz of which these extensions are there. But most of the people like me like to use adobe instead of Thorium (Chrome). So, People like me don't want extra extensions. There should be a option to remove them. OR if the option exits, then help me with the guide to remove them. Thanks

gz83 commented 1 month ago

This is a built-in extension and it exists in Chrome as well, we just managed to show it. Also, this question has been answered many times.

vippium commented 1 month ago

This is a built-in extension and it exists in Chrome as well, we just managed to show it. Also, this question has been answered many times.

Then, why don't you hide them....Isn't there any way in thorium to hide them.? Like some flag which you can introduce?

gz83 commented 1 month ago

Hiding these extensions does not mean deleting them. You can also allow Acrobat to open PDF files by changing the file association.

We expose them to the public at the source code level, and users cannot hide them at the moment.

JoachimHenze commented 1 month ago

It's a misery that google did not do that more plugin-like. So that unwanted stuff could be stripped entirely.

Alex313031 commented 1 month ago

You would not want to get rid of the PDF viewer. Without it, PDFs cannot be displayed or printed from. Every Chromium based browser has this, but it is normally hidden. The hangouts extension is optional, and can be configured at build time with the enable_hangout_services_extension = true/false argument. Most, but not all, Chromium based browsers have this, and again it is normally hidden. This extension is only used on Google Hangout websites, and requires the user to consent to microphone/camera before it is ever actually activated.

vippium commented 1 month ago

You would not want to get rid of the PDF viewer. Without it, PDFs cannot be displayed or printed from. Every Chromium based browser has this, but it is normally hidden. The hangouts extension is optional, and can be configured at build time with the enable_hangout_services_extension = true/false argument. Most, but not all, Chromium based browsers have this, and again it is normally hidden. This extension is only used on Google Hangout websites, and requires the user to consent to microphone/camera before it is ever actually activated.

So, can't you directly implement a flag which triggers this argument. Like you did with your icons too.

Alex313031 commented 1 month ago

@Vipin2003 I mean I probably could, but it means more work. Why are you so concerned about it?

You can view the source here, and see that there is nothing malicious > https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/browser/resources/hangout_services/

vippium commented 1 month ago

@Vipin2003 I mean I probably could, but it means more work. Why are you so concerned about it?

You can view the source here, and see that there is nothing malicious > https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/browser/resources/hangout_services/

Try to do it when you are free or have time. I'm just asking other's people concern.

vippium commented 1 month ago

Reflected in M124.0.6367.218 - 40th Release. Thanks to dev for listening to audience

gz83 commented 1 month ago

Once again, the flag introduced this time only hides these extensions, but does not delete them.