Can you disable the welcome message that shows when a chrome extension is first installed?

Whenever a chrome extension is installed, Chrome shows a welcome message popup:

Is there any way for this to be disabled when building the extension?

2 Answers

Answers 1

I believe there is no way to do this, since obviously it's the default behavior of chrome, which means to let user know there is a new extension installed, how to manage extensions and to prevent extension is silently installed in background.

When building extension by ourselves, we can do something when extension is first installed, by listening to chrome.runtime.onInstalled event, usually we will popup a web page or navigate user to specific sites. However, we can determine if we need this behavior, but we can't change the default behavior of chrome browser extension.

Answers 2

chrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(function() {...});  

Source developer.chrome.com

I do believe that this is a good place to start.

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