Questions tagged [google-chrome-extensions]
Extensions extend the functionality of Google Chrome browser. Questions which ask for an extension or plugin to be recommended are off topic.
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Chrome extension for link preview, like Safari's
Safari has a feature that lets you three-finger tap to preview a link. When you tap on the link, the referenced website pops up so that you can quickly scan it and decide whether you want to commit to ...
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Is it possible, either by a stock setting, extensions, or an external program to make Google Chrome restore all data upon restart? If so, how?
(This is the second question in a series including Is it possible to save a web browser (specifically, Google Chrome) session and/or cache to your computer permanently? If so, how, with what tools?, ...
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Download image from browser via Chrome Extension
I am thinking of creating a Chrome Extension that would allow you to download any image in the browser to a 3rd party app with the click of a button. I can inject the button into the page using a &...
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Extensions manually installed (using "load unpacked") vanish after closing and relaunching Chrome
I find myself forced to install the same extension again and again everytime I need it because Chrome systematically removes it. How can I tell Chrome to stop doing that?
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How to get notification on my android/ios phone via Chrome's notification? [closed]
I'm using the Chrome browser on my PC to monitor website/page changes. I set it up so whenever there's a change on the page, the Chrome browser will notify me via a pop-up notification.
Sometimes I'm ...
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Install extension to all chromium browsers on my computer and make it ENABLED
guys! Is there any way that I can install an extension (that is already published in Store) to all of the Chromium browsers that I've got on my Windows 10 PC at once?
Tried to do it, using Registry: ...
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Replacing Roboto font on Chrome
Let me start with a rant.
I have never especially liked the new Roboto 2014 font, and I vastly prefer the original Roboto 2011, which places me in a minority, since almost everyone prefers the new ...
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ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT with any URL beginning with: chrome-extension://
Specifically I want that when I open a new tab, the Read Later Chrome app will open. Why? Because I prefer to read some interesting thing that I saved for later instead of being distracted by other ...
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How can I give chrome extensions access on specific sites (and all subdomains)?
How can I give chrome extensions access on specific sites (and all subdomains)? For example, if I enter youtube.com in the "allowed sites" list, the extension only works on youtube.com but ...
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Scroll with arrow keys not working in Chrome
Since last night i am having trouble browsing any websites using arrow keys. When i want to scroll up/down a blinking cursor appears from no-where similar to word docs that lets cursors select text ...
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Use Own VPN Server on Google Chrome Browser
I'm looking a way to connect Internet through my VPN server while browsing from Google Chrome Browser. I though best way is use an extension but I couldn't find any extension that let me enter my own ...
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How to identify the Chrome extension breaking a website?
Recently, when I've tried to log into Discord in the Chrome browser, the login page has been completely blank.
If I open the page in incognito mode, the page loads normally, so I know it must be a ...
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How to identify which Chrome extension is redirecting traffic?
By chance I noticed that sometimes when I access bookdepository.com I get redirected to a strange URL before landing on that page. Apparently some rogue extension is hijacking the request to first ...
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Can I have chrome just update a certain other tab when I click on a link?
I'd like to have 2 tabs/windows opened and click links on the left one (without it changing) while the right one sort of keeps updating itself by opening the links I click on.
Is that somehow possible?...
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how to change user for offline google docs access
When attempting to see if a doc is available offline clicking the "all changes saved to drive" to check for status icon says:
"Looks like you're offline. This document cannot be edited ...
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How to prevent leakage of installed Chrome Browser extensions?
Basis for my question is this study:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity17/sec17-sanchez-rola.pdf
Relevant quotes from the study:
"The extension detection works by ...
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How to import cookies from Safari to Chrome using a custom Chrome extension
I would like to import my cookies for a specific website from Safari to Chrome. I am currently following this answer. The main problem I'm having is I do not know how to indicate which cookies I would ...
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Where can I see the log of the activation and the deactivation of Google Chrome extensions?
Google Chrome extensions can be activated or deactivated via chrome://extensions/:
Activated:
Deactivated:
Where can I see the log of the activation and the deactivation of Google Chrome extensions?
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What's special about /Applications on macOS Catalina?
I'm building a macOS binary to accompany a Chrome extension using the Chrome Native Messaging API. When the binary (unsigned, unnotarized) is in my Downloads folder, Chrome is not able to launch it. ...
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Google Chrome Extension not starting on cloned Linux Ubuntu 20.04 Virtual Machines
My own Google Chrome Extension should start when the Google Chrome browser is opened (via crontab xvfb-run), but it does not. The Extension is used via Developer mode and is not published in the ...
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Is there a way to search for less than and greater than numeric values on a page's content with Chrome?
Can Google Chrome (or any other browser for that matter) be coaxed into searching for < or > values on page content? I frequently find myself attempting to search for content that has numeric ...
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I typed booking.com and my Google Chrome forwarded me via rstyle.com to an affiliate link - How to debug this?
I typed www.booking.com into Chrome and I saw rstyle.me and then I was sent to:
https://www.booking.com/?aid=803127&label=affnetcj-12010984_pub-2975314_site-4441350_clkid-.MzYwMTMyLTA.029b2c08-...
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AdBlock Plus keeps getting enabled again on weather.com
I've been using AdBlock Plus in Chrome for a while. Recently, www.weather.com changed so that it forces me to disable my ad blocker in order to use their site.
However, for some reason, no matter how ...
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How to fix “Error : can't share your screen” with Google Meet in Google Chrome Browser?
I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad laptop with operating system loaded Windows 8.1 Pro and using Google Chrome version 84.0.4147.89 (Official Build) (64-bit). I am able to use Hangouts / Google Meet / ...
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how to remove extensions settings icon from Chrome's extension bar
I would like to remove that icon of Extension settings (upper right corner) from the extensions bar. How to do that?
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How do I enforce settings for an extension in chrome using mac?
I'd like to enforce settings for an extension called uBlacklist. I want to make sure that every instance of Chrome on my computer has the same settings.
I'd like to edit it's settings, specifically ...
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In Chrome / History, how to open all tabs from a different synced computer's window?
I have several computers across the house. On my main computer, I'm working on several projects at once, so I have say 10 Chrome windows open and 20 tabs per window. Now, for whatever reason sometimes ...
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Can't load load Google Chrome extension on Linux because folder begins with a dot (.)
I am using Google Chrome on Linux and am in the Extensions Developer Mode.
I want to load an unpacked extension and Chrome is asking me via a file dialog to open the extension folder. Unfortunately ...
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Are browser extensions that allow css :visited to start working again a security breach?
All browsers have restricted :visited for better security. (Mozilla's page for details.)
This is quite troublesome when visiting a lot of pages.
I have been using the extension 'stylus' which targets ...
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How to Highlight the active Chrome Window- Mac
I usually have multiple chrome windows open (3 or 4) on my monitor.
Something like the below. Often, I get lost on knowing which my active window is.
It hurts the most when you accidentally close a ...
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How to find who — or what — exactly opened ad page?
Recently I noticed that sometimes in my Chrome somewhat opens new tabs with ads. It comes with a random interval (0-1-2-3 times in a day). It comes if I'm browsing or wathcing a video on youtube in ...
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How to open a new tab on the left in Chrome browser?
Every new link you open with CTRL + mouseclick opens a new tab on the right.
However, there are certain situations where it is helpful to open a new tab to the left.
Is there any shortcut to achieve ...
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Why is my Chromium extensions folder empty?
I have two Chromium extensions installed:
I am on Ubuntu 18.04 and Chromium Version 83.0.4103.97 (Official Build) snap (64-bit).
However, my extensions folder is empty!
$ ls ~/.config/chromium/...
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How can I sort the installed Google Chrome extensions by date of last extension update?
How can I sort the installed Google Chrome extensions by date of last extension update?
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Lost data in Google Chrome webform
I was typing information into a long web form in Google Chrome using the Grammarly Chrome extension to check my spelling. Just as I was about to save my work the page crashed and the form was wiped ...
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Does disabling a Google Chrome extension prevent any code of the extension from being executed?
I disabled a Google Chrome extension:
However, based on some recent experience, I am starting to wonder whether disabling a Google Chrome extension is a guarantee that no code from the extension is ...
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how can I arrange the extensions by date or enabled and disabled
my chrome or firefox addons are a mess
I can't deal with it which are on which are off is there a way to arrange them
in chrome and firefox.
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How can I remove the "Awards Cup" from superuser/stackexchange at the web browser level eg Chrome?
Is it possible to remove the "Awards Cup" from superuser at the web browser level?
This thing
which sometimes looks like e.g.
I don't want to know if somebody upvoted me. or if I got some points....
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How to make Google Chrome reopen my tabs after closing it? [duplicate]
Let's say I have 4 tabs open, then I close the browser to shutdown my computer.
I'd like that next time I turn it back on and open the browser, the 4 tabs to be there. If they got saved onto some ...
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Google Hangouts will not connect Errors: 212, 213, 214
I have been doing some research but I have been coming across many different answers that do not seem to be working.
I have been told that creating a new group will work but the problem for me is ...
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How to track down which chrome extension is generating popunders?
Observation: as of ~4 hours ago, my browser opens up a popunder on ppcorn.com at random intervals (every ~10-50 minutes). No software change in past ~4-6 months (excluding regular windows updates), ...
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one-click-save all open tabs as web page files to disk in google chrome
Is there any way in Google Chrome to save all or selected open tabs in all windows to disk? I don't mean to save the state of windows and tabs I have open, or bookmark them, but rather to ...
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Is there a Chrome equivalent for Firefox's multi-account container extension?
I just found out about Firefox's multi-account container extension. For those unfamiliar, this is a good overview...https://youtu.be/Gy7lyvAfOSw.
It seems like a fantastic solution for being able to ...
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Link or extension to assign a certain value to a chrome flag (Force Dark Mode for Web Contents)
"Force Dark Mode for Web Contents : Enabled" works fine in a lot of sites. But when it doesn't, I want to switch the flag to "Disabled" or "Default" with a click of a button (without having to access ...
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How can I remove entries from Google Chrome browsing history by keyword?
I want to remove my history from Google Chrome by keyword, for example "youtube", or "wikipedia". I've only been able to find plugins which remove all history based on time, e.g. 3 days ago.
Using ...
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Enable/disable Chrome extensions per site (via white or blacklist)
Is it possible to create a black or whitelist for Chrome extensions that works per site?
I find there's a few extensions that I find extremely useful on some sites, but clash with others.
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How to optimize any webpage in Chrome to make it more reader friendly?
I am a student and it's been probably more than a month since we've been locked in our homes. I left most of my books at the hostel, but classes are being taken online. So, simply not studying has ...
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Zooming in chrome without changing font or layout
We all know how zooming in chrome works, the fonts and the layout also changes.
i have been looking for a solution to this.
and found this extension Custom Page Zoom
this extension works as expected,...
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How to run Chrome/Chromium extension from terminal [LINE extension]
Are there any other ways to open LINE chromium extension from terminal?
This is LINE extension
I can open LINE extension manually (Launch Chromium then click LINE icon) without any problems.
However I ...
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How Can I Export/ Backup/ Migrate All Extensions from one Chromium based browser to another?
Im not using the official Google Chrome nor and not able to use its Sync feature.
Chromium used to be good and flexible, you could just copy the "extensions" folder and it would work.. I dont know ...
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