progress for updating extensions

[kzahel]

I probably have a lot more extensions installed than a normal user, but I notice that my chromebook gets very sluggish sometimes and 99% of the time, immediately afterward I'll see a few notifications from the extensions update notifier.

It would be nice if the extension could also show progress akin to how chrome.webstore.install inline installs provide notifications for download progress / install etc. It would be nice to know that my system is slowing down because some extensions are updating. Currently I only find out after one has updated why my system is slowing down and not responding to scrolls, clicks, typing, etc.

Of course, it would be even better if I could manually disable app updates like I can on Android, for instance when I am doing some work and don't want to be distracted by my system slowing down for a few minutes.

This is probably the wrong place to write all this down but thought this was the best place I could find :-)

[beaufortfrancois]

Thank you Kyle for all this feedback.

I probably have a lot more extensions installed than a normal user, but I notice that my chromebook gets very sluggish sometimes and 99% of the time, immediately afterward I'll see a few notifications from the extensions update notifier.

The extension updated notifier extension is probably not responsible for that behaviour. We might want to file a bug report at http://crbug.com/new to let the chromium team that the chromebook doesn't respond well to simultaneous multiples extensions updates.

It would be nice if the extension could also show progress akin to how chrome.webstore.install inline installs provide notifications for download progress / install etc. It would be nice to know that my system is slowing down because some extensions are updating. Currently I only find out after one has updated why my system is slowing down and not responding to scrolls, clicks, typing, etc.

I agree that something like chrome.management.onUpdateProgress.addListener(function callback) would be great to follow updates in progress. Please file a feature request at http://crbug.com/new. I'll definitely star it.

Of course, it would be even better if I could manually disable app updates like I can on Android, for instance when I am doing some work and don't want to be distracted by my system slowing down for a few minutes.

This sadly goes against the "policy" of Chrome Extensions of where everything always have to be the latest version ;(

This is probably the wrong place to write all this down but thought this was the best place I could find :-)

This is not. It's best to have a conversation first and then file appropriate bugs.

[kzahel]

Yeah so I definitely was annoyed by this today again. I went to my brother's house and logged in on his chromebook and basically I couldn't use it for 10 minutes while it updated about 10 apps (including now the very large android runtime thing)

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=420379