Chrome Close Lock

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Chris Hartley
Feb 1, 2025

I can see no reason at all why you need to Read browsing history Manage apps, extensions, and themes These are the sort of activity used by hackers. Well, not on my computer. I've been using the app for a while now, it WAS brilliant. Now, it is disabled and going to be uninstalled.

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Matt IrwinDeveloperFeb 2, 2025

Hi Chris. First, that is a very harsh reaction, we are happy to answer any questions you have about Chrome Close Lock. I'm not sure if you know or not but the source code of any extension, including this one, can easily be viewed on your computer, nothing is hidden, nothing is nefarious. If you don't know how to read code, you can take the source code into chat gpt and prompt it to explain what each line of code does. Have it walk you through each line of the code step by step so you can see that this version does the same thing as the previous version. In order to fix some of the bugs in the last version we had to change some of the methodology of how the extension works. Google has gone to great lengths to make sure extensions do not contain malicious code. Every extension, and every update to an extension has to be approved by Google before it can be published to the Chrome store. This is why we can no longer make the Chrome Close Lock auto-enabled on startup. As developers, in order to use some built in Chrome commands, we have to enable corresponding permissions to allow the commands to work. I know it can sound scary when it says it needs new permissions and it doesn't explain to you why it needs the new permissions. A quick example is browsing history, the extension needs that to read what the status of the Chrome Close Lock tab was, if it should happen to change. Was it enabled and now disabled? Was it last in the initial state of neither enabled or disabled, etc.? It only cares about the Chrome Close Lock tab, what you do in your other tabs is your own business not ours. I encourage you to do your own research and the reply back here with your findings.

David C
Jan 31, 2025

Very helpful extension. But I enjoyed the kitten pictures. If embedding the pictures increased the size too much, how about adding an option to display the user's own pictures from a particular directory?

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Matt IrwinDeveloperFeb 1, 2025

Hi David, we can definitely look at adding that function into the next version!

Russell Freeman
Jan 31, 2025

Hello dev, could you please bring back the option to enable locking each window by default? In the new version, I would have to manually activate the close window protection feature. I miss the days when all new browser windows are automatically protected the moment they're first created. I'm a lazy set-and-forget kind of person😂 I'm used to the days when the pinned protection tab doesn't kick in, I can click the extension button to lauch the dedicated pinned tab and thus activating protect... Show more

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Derek Matuszewski
Jan 7, 2025

A solution that helps prevent me from accidentally closing Chrome. I do agree with the other reviews that the visuals are very weird. Please make a basic theme that is just a blank page. There's no need for themes.

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