Chrome Extension Downloader
I can’t recall the last time I didn’t install an extension from the Google’s Chrome Web Store. However, developers—up until now—have been allowed to offer their extensions as inline downloads. In other words, they could drop a download button on a website, you’d click on it and see a typical installation confirmation dialogue (as if you were installing the extension from the Chrome Web Store itself), and before you knew it, you were +1 to extensions.
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Goodbye, inline installations
This inline installation feature, as it’s known, is going away because we can’t have nice things. With inline installations, developers could talk about an extension any way they wanted to on their websites. Presumably, you then wouldn’t pay that much attention to the actual description of the extension you were grabbing from the Chrome Web Store. That could lead to a little confusion, at best, or maliciousness, at worst, if a developer wanted to pull the ol’ swippy-swappy and con you into installing something shady. As Google writes:
“...we continue to receive large volumes of complaints from users about unwanted extensions causing their Chrome experience to change unexpectedly — and the majority of these complaints are attributed to confusing or deceptive uses of inline installation on websites. As we’ve attempted to address this problem over the past few years, we’ve learned that the information displayed alongside extensions in the Chrome Web Store plays a critical role in ensuring that users can make informed decisions about whether to install an extension. When installed through the Chrome Web Store, extensions are significantly less likely to be uninstalled or cause user complaints, compared to extensions installed through inline installation.”
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As of today, developers will not be allowed to offer inline installations for newly published extensions. Existing extensions will find inline installations disabled starting September 12, and Google will deprecate the entire inline install API when Chrome 71 hits in early December 2018.
What Google’s change means for you
If you visit a chrome extension developer’s website and find that you can’t click on a download button and install an extension, Google’s adjustment is likely to blame. Before you give up on the extension, try searching the Chrome Web Store manually to see if the extension exists—it should, unless the developer has made it very clear that this is an extension you should sideload into your browser. (You really shouldn’t have to do that unless there’s no other way to get a particular extension that you must have and have verified that the extension isn’t malware in disguise.)
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What’s sideloading?
If Google pulls your favorite extension from the Chrome Web Store, for example, and you don’t care about the security concerns involved with installing an extension “gone rogue,” sideloading the extension allows you to to bypass Google’s installation restrictions.
To begin, enter chrome://extensions/ into your address bar and click on the “developer mode” toggle in the upper-right corner.
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Take the extension’s .CRX file that you previously downloaded—assuming you have one—and use a service like CRX Extractor to transform its contents into a simple ZIP. Unzip that archive somewhere on your desktop or laptop, then click on “Load Unpacked” in the chrome://extensions/ window and go find the folder where you extracted that ZIP file. Barring any errors, that should drop the extension directly into Chrome.
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If you have no idea where to find .CRX files for extensions, you can check out the ever-useful Chrome Extensions Archive. Download a .ZIP file from here, rename it to .CRX, and go through the above process to manually drop it into your browser. Yes, you’ll still have to use CRX Extractor to create another ZIP and import that folder’s contents into your browser. You’ll be fine.
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(Though, really, you should just use the Chrome Web Store whenever possible for extensions. Malware can slip in, but at least Google is vigilant about checking for it and removing it.)
In order to remove Google Image Downloader Chrome Extension completely you will need to reset Chrome back to its initial settings. Doing these steps will erase all configuration information from Chrome such as your home page, tab settings, saved form information, browsing history, and cookies. This process will also disable any installed extensions. All of your bookmarks, though, will be preserved.
To reset Chrome, open the program and click on the Chrome menu button () in the top right-hand corner of the window. This will open the main menu for Chrome as shown below.
Now click on the menu option labeled Settings as shown by the arrow in the picture above, which will open the basic settings screen. Scroll down to the very bottom and you will see a Show advanced settings... option as shown in the image below.
Click on the Show advanced settings... option to open the advanced settings screen. Scroll to the very bottom until you see the reset button as shown in the image below.
Now click on the Reset settings button as shown in the image above. Chrome will now open a confirmation dialog asking if you are sure you wish to reset your browser.
To reset Chrome, click on the Reset button. Chrome will now erase all your personal data, browsing history, and disable all installed extensions. Your bookmarks, though, will remain intact and still be accessible. You can now close the Settings tab and continue with the rest of the instructions.