How to install Google Chrome extension

by Himanshu on August 16, 2009 · 8 comments

You are very much aware of Firefox and its well known plugins. This is the main reason that people love Firefox inspite of Google Chrome which has an incredible speed.

But it is a fantastic news for every Chrome lover that there are extensions available in Google Chrome too.

But installation of extension in Google Chrome is not as much easy as in Firefox. You need to switch to Google Chrome Developer Version. After switching to developer version;

Go to Google Chrome icon on your desktop

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Right click on the icon and go to properties

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Go to Shortcuts and change the target. You need to add –enable-extensions after any chrome.exe. Example  C:UserscomputernameAppDataLocalGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe – -enable-extensions

Note: There is a space between exe and —  Update: There should be two hyphens before “enable-extensions” in the given target and there should be no gap between them. If you want to copy paste the above given target; please delete the given hyphens(- -) before *enable and add two hyphens before *enable i.e. – -enable-extensions without any gap between hyphens.

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Now restart the Google Chrome, you are ready to install any extension now.

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1 Suneel August 16, 2009 at 9:36 pm

This didn’t work for me as expected

The browser opens and goes to this address :http://xn--enable-extensions-802j/

which I haven’t observed. And I have quotes in the application path like this:
“c:….” –enable-extensions but your image does not have any quotes.

Please clarify.

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2 himanshu August 16, 2009 at 10:17 pm

Thanks Suneel for the comment, you are the first commentator on my blog so you are now special for me :)

The problem arises due to incorrect target you are using, Since hyphens are case sensitive. There should be two hyphens before “enable-extensions” in the given target and there should be no gap between them. If you want to copy paste the above given target; please delete the given hyphens(- -) before *enable and add two hyphens before *enable i.e. – -enable-extensions without any gap between hyphens.

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3 ankit August 19, 2009 at 12:07 am

dun know but i am not able to do this..vl try tomorrow with fresh mind..

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4 Osama September 28, 2009 at 1:58 am

thank u for the tip .It’s very useful

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6 Head March 10, 2010 at 12:53 pm

Tnx! And another problem – installing any ext. stops with an error «cannot create directory for unzipping».

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