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A plain text string (no HTML or other formatting; no more than 132 characters) that describes the
extension. The description should be suitable for both the browser's extension management UI and the
[Chrome Web Store](https://chrome.google.com/webstore). You can specify locale-specific strings for this field; see
[Internationalization](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/i18n) for details.