Experimental Dropbox Build 3.7.31 bundles the Dropbox Gmail extension for Chrome

Adding an opt-in method of installing the Chrome extension during installation = Hey thanks! This is really convenient and helpful!<p>Bundling the extension by default during installation = Really?! Are you kidding?! This extension isn&#x27;t vital to the Dropbox experience and is only useful to a small subset of users. If you tell users this extension exists, those who want the functionality will gladly install it. I hope you&#x27;re at least bundling a 1.0 version when this build is released since the version on the Chrome store says it&#x27;s BETA version 0.9.7.

Wait a minute, isn&#x27;t this the main reason Google is blocking all offline extension installs across all platform soon and enforcing all installations to be done via its web store?<p>Why is Dropbox wasting time on something that&#x27;s about to be broken soon? Unless they have a deal with Google to allow this? If so, isn&#x27;t that anti-competitive?

I hope they&#x27;re doing it <i>very</i> carefully. Last I checked, making any changes to Chrome&#x27;s settings files (like adjusting a homepage) will cause Chrome to reset all extensions and extension settings. It does this with no warning. And if you&#x27;re not logged in and synced to Google, all those settings are gone.

I hate when companies do this.