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disable chrome.webstore.install for inline extensions #614

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@diracdeltas

context: https://blog.chromium.org/2018/06/improving-extension-transparency-for.html

inline extensions are a huge malware risk. we should disable them in Brave.

AFAIK it is sufficient to disable the chrome.webstore.install method

note that in c71, chrome will disable it as well (possibly with a redirect to CWS which would be slightly better UX than silently failing).

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