I'd be a little wary of adding a long laundry list of privileges.  I
suspect users will have a finite willingness to absorb information
from this dialog.

Adam


On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Aaron Boodman <a...@google.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I plan to experiment with this dialog a bit more. I don't think
> it will address pdknsk's concern, but I was going to make it more of a
> list, like:
>
> This extension will have access to:
>
> * Your browsing history
> * Your private data on: google.com, yahoo.com, ... (or "several
> websites", or "all websites")
> * Your location on earth
> ...etc...
>
> The problem is that the current dialog does not scale to new kinds or
> permissions very well.
>
> - a
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Adam Barth <aba...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> I don't understand your question.  Do you have other text that you
>> think is more accurate?  The current statement sounds pretty accurate
>> to me.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:22 PM, pdknsk <pdk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> "This extension will have access to your browsing history and private
>>> data on http://domain.com.";
>>>
>>> IMO that statement is more of a fact than a warning, like "we have
>>> detected that this extension will access your browsing history and
>>> private data" when it is more likely that the extension is completely
>>> harmless and just does a XHR to get some data.
>>
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