Settings Overrides

Settings overrides are a way for extensions to override selected Chrome settings and user interface properties.

An extension can override one or more of the following properties:

Bookmarks User Interface:

• Bookmark button: the "star" button that is used to bookmark pages. Extensions may remove this button using the settings overrides, and optionally replace it with a browser action or page action.
• Bookmark shortcut: the shortcut key that is used to bookmark a page (Ctrl-D on Windows). Extensions may remove this shortcut via the settings overrides, and optionally bind their own command to it using the commands section of the manifest.

Note: Settings overrides are only enabled in the Chrome Dev release, and Chrome must be started with the --enable-override-bookmarks-ui=1 command line flag to enable bookmarks user interface overrides.

Manifest

Register settings overrides in the extension manifest like this:

{
  "name": "My extension",
  ...

  "chrome_settings_overrides" : {
    "bookmarks_ui": {
      "remove_button": "true",
      "remove_bookmark_shortcut": "true"
    }
  },
  ...
}