This extension brings the following functionality to ungoogled-chromium (and other forks that lack web store support):
- Allows installing extensions directly from chrome web store.
- Automatically checks for updates to your installed extensions and displays them on the badge.
- If you are using
ungoogled-chromium
: You must change the flagchrome://flags/#extension-mime-request-handling
toAlways prompt for install
. - If you are NOT using
ungoogled-chromium
: Ensure the following option is checked: Extension Options (chrome://extensions/?options=ocaahdebbfolfmndjeplogmgcagdmblk) > Advanced >Always download CRX files
- If you are seeing
CRX_REQUIRED_PROOF_MISSING
orApps, extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website
errors, please be sure you have followed the instructions above before opening an issue. - Some extensions may not update until you restart your browser, see #4.
- If you do not see the
Add to Chromium
button in the web store, you can use the context menu option instead: Right click >Add to Chromium
.
- Pin the Chromium Web Store badge in your browser's toolbar. (Badges are hidden by default)
- The badge will show a red number indicating available updates.
- Click on the badge, then click the name of any extension to install the latest version.
- This method will work for non-webstore extensions as well if they support it, including chromium web store itself. (See the section at the bottom of this readme if you are an extension developer and don't have your extension listed in the chrome web store.)
- Go to
chrome://flags
and search for the#extension-mime-request-handling
flag and set it toAlways prompt for install
. - Download the .crx from Releases, you should be prompted to install the extension.
If the above steps do not work for you, try one of the following alternative methods:
- Go to
chrome://extensions
and enable developer mode (toggle in top right). - Download the .crx from Releases and drag-and-drop it onto the
chrome://extensions
page.
- Download the .crx from Releases and extract the contents to a folder.
- Visit
chrome://extensions/
and turn on developer mode (toggle in top right). - Click
Load unpacked
and select the directory you extracted the crx to.
[Streamable Mirror] (Thanks @woolyss for creating & hosting this video.)
- Right click the badge and choose
Options
from the context menu or access them viachrome://extensions
. - "Web Store" extensions refer to any that were obtained from the Chrome Web Store, despite displaying
Source: Not from Chrome Web Store
when checking extension details. - Please read the note in Release 1.4 if you wish to use the import/export feature.
- Create a directory in
_locales
named any supported locale code. - Copy
_locales/en/messages.json
to your newly created directory and edit the "message" fields as necessary, you don't need to change anything else. - Submit a PR or open an issue with your translation and I will merge it.
and do not have your extension listed in the Chrome Web Store, you can still enable updates via chromium-web-store by hosting an update manifest file; see updates.xml in this repo for an example. You must also specify a url to access this file in your extension's manifest.json
under the update_url
field; again, see manifest.json in this repo for an example.
See #28 and managed_storage.json