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On the Google Play website, where can you view the permissions required by an app, before downloading or installing it? I seem to remember when browsing apps a few months ago, each app had a link or tab for showing the required permissions. But the site looks different now, and I can no longer find the information. Oh**, nevermind.
Note: I prefer to browse the available apps on my computer before downloading the chosen ones to my phone. And I'm using Firefox - that shouldn't limit what I see, should it?
I'm trying not to gripe much about Google products seeming user unfriendly, as my difficulties may simply be due to my inexperience with the interfaces.
Yesterday evening while trying to do a web search on Chrome, I got annoyed by a microphone window unexpectedly popping up. I muttered "F*ck You", and it proceeded to show a page of search results for "F*ck You". That was amusing.
I then tried some other verbal searches... but it didn't give me time to finish my thoughts, and instead searched on the first few words I had said. I suppose I'd need to formulate my question before starting to speak it.
At work, I found a free app/plugin/whatever-Chrome-calls-it, on the Google site, that I wanted to install to my Chrome browser. Besides not being able to find the permissions, there was no obvious way to install it. There was a button at the top of the page labelled "Free". When I eventually clicked this button, it showed me the required permissions, and after my accepting them, apparently installed the plugin. As I recall, I didn't get a confirmation message that it had been installed, but when I checked the installed plugins, it was listed. Why do they label the install button "Free" instead of "Install" or "Add to Browser"?
When I tried to use the plugin, I got a prompt requesting extra permissions. Why weren't all the permissions listed to begin with? And then to top it all off, the plugin didn't even seem to work. It kept showing an hourglass.
** This page says that the only way to see permissions now is to click the Install button. But it seems that the install button doesn't display unless you're logged in with a Google account. Even then, if it's an account other than the one you've set up for your phone, you *still* won't be able to see the permissions. You'll just get a message "You haven't accessed the Google Play Store app (the white shopping bag icon) on your device with this email account." Sheesh. gripegripegripehategooglehategooglegripegripe
No option for turning off the navigation bar auto-hide "feature" when using Chrome on a tablet. gripegripe. Even Opera for Android seems to have done the same thing! grrrrr.
Note: I prefer to browse the available apps on my computer before downloading the chosen ones to my phone. And I'm using Firefox - that shouldn't limit what I see, should it?
I'm trying not to gripe much about Google products seeming user unfriendly, as my difficulties may simply be due to my inexperience with the interfaces.
Yesterday evening while trying to do a web search on Chrome, I got annoyed by a microphone window unexpectedly popping up. I muttered "F*ck You", and it proceeded to show a page of search results for "F*ck You". That was amusing.
I then tried some other verbal searches... but it didn't give me time to finish my thoughts, and instead searched on the first few words I had said. I suppose I'd need to formulate my question before starting to speak it.
At work, I found a free app/plugin/whatever-Chrome-calls-it, on the Google site, that I wanted to install to my Chrome browser. Besides not being able to find the permissions, there was no obvious way to install it. There was a button at the top of the page labelled "Free". When I eventually clicked this button, it showed me the required permissions, and after my accepting them, apparently installed the plugin. As I recall, I didn't get a confirmation message that it had been installed, but when I checked the installed plugins, it was listed. Why do they label the install button "Free" instead of "Install" or "Add to Browser"?
When I tried to use the plugin, I got a prompt requesting extra permissions. Why weren't all the permissions listed to begin with? And then to top it all off, the plugin didn't even seem to work. It kept showing an hourglass.
** This page says that the only way to see permissions now is to click the Install button. But it seems that the install button doesn't display unless you're logged in with a Google account. Even then, if it's an account other than the one you've set up for your phone, you *still* won't be able to see the permissions. You'll just get a message "You haven't accessed the Google Play Store app (the white shopping bag icon) on your device with this email account." Sheesh. gripegripegripehategooglehategooglegripegripe
No option for turning off the navigation bar auto-hide "feature" when using Chrome on a tablet. gripegripe. Even Opera for Android seems to have done the same thing! grrrrr.