I have Chrome on a PC with Windows 10.
When I open Chrome, I get a window in the top right corner of the screen that says:
“Archive Page is disabled”
“To re-enable it, accept the new permissions”
under these two lines, is a greyed-out “Display notifications”
And under all this, two oval-shaped buttons:
one labeled “Accept Permissions”, and colored bright blue to invite clicking,
the other one labelled “Remove”, slight smaller, and colored white.
What am I supposed to do?
(I have a gmail email account, if that is relevant.)
This is not from Chrome itself, it’s from a third-party extension that’s installed in Chrome, presumably “Archive Page” (click for description). The purpose of the extension is to give you a toolbar icon that you can click, which will take a snapshot of the current tab you’re browsing and keep a copy at a website called archive.today. The extension was installed in your Chrome browser in the past; did you know about it? Do you use archive.today?
An extension in Chrome is a bit like an “app” in an Android or Apple phone, the container (Chrome) restricts the things it can do without the user’s permission. For instance, if an extension wants to (fictional example) be able to use your microphone to record sounds, there needs to be a permission set for that. The set of possible permissions can change over time as (A) Chrome adds security features/restrictions, and (B) individual extensions get updated by their publishers to add functionality. So suddenly an extension that worked last week requires a new permission to continue working. If the permission is not set, the extension may work in a reduced way without some features (in our example, without recording sounds), or it may decide that it serves no purpose at all and tell you “I’ll need the microphone to do anything useful”.
So the “Archive Page” extension is telling you it will want to display notifications in the future, and it won’t work until you authorise it.
If you don’t know what archive.today is, you should uninstall the extension.
If you value the functionality of “Archive Page” and you trust the extension’s publisher, you should just grant the permission; at worst it will show you too many pop-ups in the upper right corner, and you can disable or uninstall the whole extension.
Wow–great answer. Thanks!
I had no idea that Archive Page was installed, I have never used it, and don’t see any need for it.
So I clicked on “Remove”, and it went away, obediently.
I wish my cat would behave so nicely.
Thanks.