Chrome blanks an off-store ExtensionInstallForcelist entry on an unmanaged
machine exactly as Edge does - the qualifying states are AD domain join, Entra
join, or Chrome Enterprise Core enrolment, and this box is none of them. The
guard now covers every browser and refuses up front, with the three ways
forward, instead of skipping Edge alone and letting Chrome fail the same way.
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Unmanaged Edge installs extensions from the Microsoft Store and nowhere else:
it reads ExtensionInstallForcelist, blanks the value to [BLOCKED]<id>, and
reports an invalid extension id forever after. Writing that key buys nothing
and costs a permanent policy error plus a "Managed by your organization"
badge, so the script now checks dsregcmd and skips Edge with the two ways
round it. -Force writes it anyway.
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The droplet kept a cached answer for the new hostname long after the record
was live everywhere else, and the DNS check is a courtesy — Let's Encrypt
resolves the name itself. SKIP_DNS_CHECK=1 skips it, matching the autotrader
stack's script.
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They are Chromium: same CRX, same update manifest, same policy — only the
registry vendor key differs. The script now defaults to every one of the three
it finds installed, which is what the Linux counterpart already did.
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Both installers ended by telling you to load the folder unpacked, which is the
one install that can never update itself. They now offer the policy install as
a last step instead, and only fall back to those instructions when it is
declined or fails.
Windows writes to the user's own policy hive rather than HKLM, so the step
needs no elevation and no separate admin shell; -Scope Machine is still there
for every-account installs. Linux gets the counterpart script — a managed
policy file under /etc, which is root-only because Chrome reads policy from
nowhere else on that platform.
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The dashboard-hosting stack from the previous commit is gone; it was answering
a question nobody asked. What was actually needed is Chrome's real update
channel, which an unpacked extension does not have and cannot be given.
So the extension is now signed into a CRX with an update manifest beside it,
served from the droplet, and installed on the trading machines by policy
(ExtensionInstallForcelist). From there Chrome installs it, updates it on its
own schedule, and puts it back if it goes missing. The manifest gained the
`key` that fixes the extension id, so an unpacked development load keeps the
same identity as the published build.
The self-update check now branches on how it was installed: policy installs ask
Chrome to check the update server now rather than waiting out its five-hour
cycle, and unpacked loads keep the reload-from-disk path. chrome.management
.getSelf() tells the two apart and needs no permission to do it.
The signing key lives at /opt/autofirmer-updates/key.pem on the droplet and
nowhere else. It is the extension's identity: a different key is a different
extension, and no browser would take it as an update.
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Chrome has no update channel for an unpacked extension, so every pull left one
manual step: click reload on its card. The dashboard now publishes the version
its own checkout ships at /api/autobuyer/status, and the extension reloads
itself when it is behind — chrome.runtime.reload() re-reads the folder from
disk, which the update check has already pulled into. It only ever runs code
that is on disk, so a reload that changes nothing is reported and waited out
rather than repeated; a dashboard that is behind is ignored.
Also adds the deploy stack for running the dashboard on the droplet, next to
the autotrader one: it joins that nginx's network and renders a server block
into its conf.d rather than standing up a second ingress. AUTOFIRMER_DB moves
the SQLite file onto a volume, since the working directory in a container is
replaced on every deploy.
And waitFor gained `hidden`: an absent gate matched on DOM presence only, so a
modal that closes by going display:none could never satisfy it. The extension
grew a visibility probe for this — locate cannot answer it, because absent and
hidden are both errors there and a wait gate has to tell them apart.
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