snytkine/staying_alive

Extension removed from Chrome Web Store

embolden opened this issue · 14 comments

embolden commented

Hello! Love your extension and went to recommend it to someone and realized that it's currently 404ing when trying to view it in the Chrome Web Store. Wanted to bring this to your attention incase you didn't know. And if you do know, I was hoping you could share the reason please. Thanks!

francisconoriega commented

Came to say the same thing, hope it can get fixed!

ashemo commented

I actually just joined so I could comment on this. Not only is it missing from the Webstore, but it quit functioning. As a user, I was thrilled to have this extension available, and hope it returns!

Cyberspy commented

I came here for the same reason. My extension is still working, but I wanted to recommend it to someone too, but now can't.
Great extension - I use Salesforce a lot and with many tabs open from 3 different orgs, if my login times out in one of them, it's a right PITA to get back to all the right pages after logging in again - this extension has saved me many hours of unproductive navigation!

ashemo commented

I wish I had never uninstalled it. Nothing I've found yet works the same. If someone has a recommendation, I'm all ears.

mattmischuk commented

@ashemo you can still install manually. You’ll need to load the plugin manually and configure custom plugins in the Chrome settings. Here’s a guide.

ashemo commented

@mattmischuk - 100,000 internet points to you, kind sir!

ericcurtin commented

The version from #6 is still available:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/staying-alive-with-wildca/lkdnaojfhnjkophgbnmfaciclaghffpe

but it doesn't seem to work. Does anybody use this for outlook or teams, if so could you share settings?

ericcurtin commented

@snytkine any idea why it was removed? Did a chrome update break it or?

Cyberspy commented

I've reached out to Dmitri Snytkine, the developer, on FB, Messenger and LinkedIn, and someone who I think is his nephew (called him Uncle on FB) but have got almost no response - he accepted my LinkedIn connection request, but hasn't responded to my messages.
This situation's not been made easier by the fact there is no licence info in this repo. If he'd posted a licence - GPL, FreeBSD etc then it would be easier to move on.
If anyone else can encourage Dmitri to have a look here and post an update - or even a licence - that would be great!

snytkine commented

Sorry guys. The reason it was removed from chrome apps is because Google requested that developers make some changes to extensions when some API changed on Google side. I'm afraid I will not have time to make any updates to this extension.

mattmischuk commented
JonoHall commented

Anyone still wanting to use this extension by circumventing the Chrome Store can do the following:

  • download the code
  • extract the files
  • go to your Chrome extensions page
  • click the "Load unpacked" button top left
  • select your extracted files

Warnings: Do this at your own risk. Obviously you lose the auto-update feature, any security checks done by Google etc.

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flarn2006 commented

@snytkine What about the license? Any word on that? One of the answers on here says that it's MIT-licensed, and appears to be a quote from an official source, but it's down so I can't verify it's correct. (I'd say it's probably a safe assumption though, as I don't see any reason they'd have to make that up.)

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arunelias commented