Remove chrome extension's "See browsing history" permission request

Question

Here's my predicament. I am writing an extension for Google Chrome. And it works fine. It's a theme for Google+.

Enough with that. In order to display an icon in the address bar, I need to have "tabs" as part of my permissions. I believe this also causes the web store to say that my extension can access the browser's history. Any way to remedy this?

(Source here: https://github.com/bichiliad/G-Theme)

Answer 1

You don't need tabs permission for displaying a browser action icon, but you need it for your chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener() in a background page.

tabs permission shouldn't trigger "Your browsing history" warning, it's a bug in the gallery. According to specs it should say "Your tabs and browsing activity". I would suggest to submit a bug report.