Chrome may soon prompt you to write reviews for your installed extensions

Google has been making several changes to the extensions experience in Chrome. After testing auto-pinning for newly installed extensions, the company is now preparing to prompt users to write reviews for their installed extensions right from inside the browser.

Instead of searching the Chrome Web Store for an extension’s listing, users could soon see review entry points directly in places where they already manage their extensions, such as the Extensions menu and the Extensions management page (chrome://extensions).

Behind the scenes, according to a Chromium commit spotted by Windows Report, Google added a check that determines whether an extension qualifies for a “Write a review” prompt. Only Chrome Web Store extensions in good standing qualify. Google excludes component, unpacked, unpublished, and removed extensions, along with any extension carrying an active policy violation.

The code also references review entry points in the Extensions menu, the extensions management page, and an extension’s context menu. Selecting one of these options will likely open the extension’s Chrome Web Store listing, where users can submit their review, though we can’t yet verify that behavior.

Google is testing the feature behind a flag called “CWS Review Prompting Native UI.”

“Enables native UI affordances (e.g., in the Extensions menu and management page) for leaving reviews on installed Chrome Web Store extensions. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS”

The flag description shows that Google plans to add native review entry points for installed extensions.

We enabled the flag in Chrome Canary on Windows but did not see any review prompts or new review options, suggesting the feature is still under development or subject to additional conditions.

Users can already leave reviews from an extension’s Chrome Web Store listing, but that page often falls out of sight once an extension is installed, so the option gets overlooked. Google’s new prompts bring that entry point into Chrome itself, making it more likely users will notice it and leave feedback.