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Deploying chrome extensions that are not in chrome webstore


I found that the chrome webbrowser recently disabled the ability to deploy extensions that are not from the chrome webstore. I tried opening my extension.crx directly intro chrome and it wont work anymore, it just download the file.

I know I could use the "load unpacked extension", but I need to do it in about 50 computers, so it's not a very practical way.

Does anyone knows any other ways to deploy an extension that is not in the webstore?

Maybe "loading an unpacked extension" programmatically from an .exe or something like that.


Solution

  • Have you tried dragging it over to Chrome, either from the download bar or the file browser on your operating system? I seem to remember this has been an issue earlier...