How to open a url while uninstalling Google Chrome Extension?

Question

I was able to do it in Firefox using nsIObserverService. Is there anything similar? Any link to proper documentation will be very helpful.

Answer 1

You can now set an uninstall url as of Version 41 of chrome.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84556

Here is the documentation. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/runtime#method-setUninstallURL

hths, future people who read this question.

Put it in background or service worker JavaScript file chrome.runtime.setUninstallURL('your URL here');

Answer 2

There are no hooks for uninstall within the Chrome extension API. Feel free to star the following feature if you want to see it included:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=19383