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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon NeverDecaf

"Add to Chromium" opens a download-prompt instead of installing the extension

Open Switch123456789 opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

The title explains the whole issue. I am using Ungoogled Chromium (99.0.4844.51 | 64bit) on Manjaro Budgie. I tried installing it with both methods (drag&drop and load unpacked). I also changed the flag extension-mime-request-handling to always prompt for install

Switch123456789 avatar Mar 19 '22 15:03 Switch123456789

Chrome's extension API doesn't allow for the direct installation of other extensions so chromium-web-store uses a hack to install them (opening the CRX in a new tab and letting your browser handle the automatic installation prompt); if this auto-install isn't working in your browser (usually fixed by setting the flag you already set) I don't think anything can be done on the side of this extension to fix it.

NeverDecaf avatar Mar 19 '22 18:03 NeverDecaf

I was able to fix/workaround it by installing "ungoogled-chromium" & "chromium-extension-web-store" through the AUR repository. Before it was installed with flatpak.

Switch123456789 avatar Jun 02 '22 12:06 Switch123456789

I also stumbled upon this issue and it seems that it has something to do with the extension size.

  1. TinEye Reverse Image Search installs without issues
  2. Search by Image does not

First one is 35.64KiB and the second is 745KiB. I also couldn't install the latter via direct link.

Attempting installing unpacked extension revealed the real reason: chromium was too old for it.

PF4Public avatar Jun 26 '22 14:06 PF4Public