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Vladimir Ignatyev Vladimir Ignatyev 1, 16 16 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Chrome blocks the download without giving me a option to keep the file other than the discard button. How to work around this? Ashokkumar Ashokkumar 3 3 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Please don't just post some tool or library as an answer.
At least demonstrate how it solves the problem in the answer itself. Schmidko Schmidko 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Muhammed Zubair Muhammed Zubair 39 3 3 bronze badges.
Another way to get the crx file. Paste the url of the extension in the textbox. Click in the option "GET. Wiicho Orozco Wiicho Orozco 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. The Overflow Blog. Podcast what if you could invest in your favorite developer? Let me explain with an example. Copy this URL in your case just the id will differ , open a new tab in your browser. Paste this link and hit Enter. The extension CRX file will download and not installed. Similarly, using these methods you can download any Chrome plugin available on the web store.
In fact, if you open the extension folder on your desktop, you will see your CRX file. Just like in the previous method, you can copy the extension ID from the Extensions page.
If you execute the URL in the Chrome browser, it will not allow you to download the extension. Accept the download prompt to complete the download procedure. You may receive a warning message if you are downloading in Chrome. Do comment below sharing your thoughts and experiences about using the above methods to download the Chrome extensions. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy and European users agree to the data transfer policy. You can help the site keep bringing you interesting and useful content and software by using these options:.
If you like this article, please share it using the buttons below. It won't take a lot from you, but it will help us grow. Thanks for your support! Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer from Russia who started Winaero back in On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Telegram , Twitter , and YouTube. Chrome extensions or add-ons are nothing more than small programs that can be installed in our browser in order to provide it with extra functionalities.
In this way we can obtain a more personalized and useful browser. To do this, we must access the Google Web Store where we will have thousands of add-ons available ordered by type of extension and valued by the users themselves, so that we can choose the ones that interest us the most and cause us greater productivity.
Of course, it is advisable to only install those that we need the most so as not to reduce the performance of our browser. Back in , Google decided to block the installation of extensions outside of the Chrome Store itself. And it is that the extensions had become until then one of the biggest security problems of the popular browser.
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