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Fix Chrome Extension Rejection: How to Avoid 'Purple Potassium'

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Google's 'Purple Potassium' rejection flag targets Chrome extensions with excessive or unused permissions. Common causes include declared API permissions never called, overly broad host access, and leftover permissions from removed features. A new CLI tool, tabsmith-lint, can automatically detect these issues before submission.

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The tool is useful, but the real story is Google's increasingly strict review process, which forces developers to be more disciplined about permissions.
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