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Issue 83642: "report a bug" for apps/extensions
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Reported by project member erik...@chromium.org, May 23, 2011 
(derived from  bug 82490 )

It's useful when dealing with bug reports from users to get detailed system info.  We could create an API for apps/extensions that allows them to preload a standard form that a user could review which optionally includes detailed system info.  The nice thing about this approach is that it would mean that we wouldn't need to explicitly grant access to the system info to the app/extension.  The user would be the one clicking on the dialog and approving that the data gets sent.
Comment 1 by sethladd@google.com, May 23, 2011 
This sounds like a better defined version of 82490.  As long as it contains the same info from about:gpu and about:version this would be very handy.
Comment 2 by sethl...@chromium.org, May 23, 2011 
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Labels: ImportantForGames
Comment 3 by lafo...@chromium.org, May 26, 2011 
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Labels: -ImportantForGames Hotlist-ImportantForGames
Comment 4 by erik...@chromium.org, Jul 25, 2011 
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Cc: bradgr...@google.com
Comment 5 by sethl...@chromium.org, Aug 2, 2011 
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Labels: -Pri-2 Pri-1 Mstone-15
Comment 6 by rahu...@chromium.org, Aug 4, 2011 
 Issue 82490  has been merged into this issue.
Cc: kbr@chromium.org vangelis@chromium.org nd...@chromium.org erik...@chromium.org
Comment 7 by erik...@chromium.org, Aug 4, 2011 
I've been thinking about this a bit more, and I think this is a good candidate for a web platform API rather than an extension API.  It seems pretty simple to define, and I think would be generally useful to websites.

Greg, what do you think?
Cc: gregsimon@chromium.org
Comment 8 by gregsimon@chromium.org, Aug 4, 2011 
I agree this would be useful for debugging but it would also be a new vector for fingerprinting, which is a hot button in the webkit community right now: the proposed battery API and resource timing both come to mind.
Comment 9 by erik...@chromium.org, Aug 4, 2011 
That's not what I'm proposing.  It wouldn't be automatic.  It would be a panel that popped up that the user had to click OK for.
Comment 10 by gregsimon@chromium.org, Aug 4, 2011 
Ah... I suggest you propose it on webkit-dev to see if any other port is looking for this. It may require new WebCore/platform APIs to gather the information you want (in addition to the security prompt callback).
Comment 11 by rahu...@chromium.org, Aug 29, 2011 
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Labels: -Mstone-15
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