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Option to disable extension content verification?

Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 12:44 pm
by Pishraft
Since a short while, google chrome extensions are 'content verified', meaning other apps can't 'hack' them. Sort of a good thing, but incredibly annoying, because I hack them all the time, to tweak and improve.

Almost immediately after saving an extension file, the extension is disabled and a message shows on the local extensions page:
This extension may have been corrupted
Is there a way I can disable this 'security' feature and keep hacking? I'd like to be the boss of my browser, not the other way around.

There is a chrome flag (extension-content-verification), but as the description says:
This can be used to turn on this feature if it would not otherwise have been turned on, but cannot be used to turn it off (because this setting can be tampered with by malware).
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Could you make an option to disable "extension content verification" ?