How to detect Chrome extension uninstall

Question

I am trying to detect whether my extension was uninstalled.

I can't use chrome.management.onUninstalled because it will be fired on other extension.

Answer 1

As of Chrome 41, you can now open a URL when the extension is uninstalled. That could contain an exit survey or track the uninstall event as some sort of analytics.

Answer 2

Google Chrome, unlike Firefox, doesn’t allow to detect when the user uninstalls the extension, which is quite useful to understand user behaviour. There is a feature request on crbug.com with a discussion of this feature but it has not been implemented yet.