How much time will it take for Google to finish its review for a extension before it gets published to the Chrome Web Store?
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Review times vary; some reviews complete in a few hours, others take many days, and in some cases a review can take several weeks
Long time no review, many days, few weeks. Our users can't wait. This is reason why we moved almost feature of extension from Chrome Extension to our own app
So it's weird. The review now take 10 days because they review all versions like its new. So if you make a push and have a small fix it's another 10 days. And sometimes it is more than 10 days.
This means a different strategy towards trying to get your extension deployed. First we are setting up a testing item in the Chrome Store Dev Section so that we can test our extension extensively in Chrome.
Second we are looking at using eval() in order to put our code in a wrapper. We already do this for FF and Safari. The real goal is to move more and more of the processing to the back end so that the need for a deployment becomes rarer.
This sounds like a lot of hoops but if you look at it from Chrome's end and the issues they have had around people doing bad things with extensions this is the price that has to be paid in order to be able to make extensions from their point of view.
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