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- Thanks for sending your reply. Mine contains the same template text but does not contain a "Please review this section" bit. It only has the "does not comply" part. i.e., it says that something's wrong, but doesn't state anything else.

- I'm really sorry to hear that your extension was never reinstated...! By the way, my extension is also minified... I didn't know about this rule at all! It was never mentioned in any of the communications, but I am seeing at least one article [0] about this. Is that what this is all about?? I just un-minified and submitted it again (after getting an email prompting me to resubmit)

- Finally, when you say "If you start messing with some of the options", what do you mean? Which options? I'm particularly interested in adding more i18n languages to the extension (amongst other changes). Do you mean to not make any changes to the manifest.json & description in the store, but that code changes are (generally) fine?

Thanks a ton!

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-no-longer-allow-chro...

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If you already submitted and its published, I would be careful about updating the package and changing options such as language in the dashboard. I was particularly thinking language as an option that would invite review. But if you need to change and re-publish make sure to also do your code updates externally and xhr from the extension so your able to minimize changes to the package.

I specifically read in the article that I linked above that the reviewers supposedly have a disfavorable view on 'hot loading' code externally, so that developers would not swap in different code than the code already reviewed...

Hmmm. Do you know if "major" extensions such as Boomerang, etc. typically update their extensions on the store, or do they do exactly as you say -- leave the store extension alone as much as possible, and update remote code?

Thanks for your input!

I don’t know. I’m my case I think the reviewers had a hard time following how my extension operated. And instead of following their written rules around minification, they closed it down. I didn’t feel comfortable sending over all my open unminified code.