Programmatically Dismiss the Chrome Extension Post-Install Message?

Question

On OS X, after installing a new chrome extension from the webstore, a default message in the form of a bubble (or infowindow, or tooltip) is displayed in the upper-right corner of the browser window. This message is persistent until the mouse is clicked.

This is a problem, because I want to display my own custom message via chrome.notifications upon install, but will overlap with the default message because it's also being displayed in the upper-right for OS X.

So, is there a way to programmatically dismiss the default post-install message? I tried several ways to dispatch events (click, mousedown, etc), but not having any luck because the chrome dev tool can not inspect the area of the toolbar/address bar from which the default message is being displayed. Thus, I don't know what to target.

Answer 1

No, you can't dismiss it with extension APIs.

It's partially a security measure - the user is informed that the thing that just got installed can be accessed and disabled from that UI location.