I am trying to set up a chrome master preferences file so that all the students in my school have the correct tabs pre-opened when they launch chrome for the first time. I am following the instructions, here.
However, placing the master_preferences file in either of the locations mentioned in the article works. Has anyone else had any success setting this up on Mac OSX?
The locations I am trying are:
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Google Master Preferences File/master_preferences
and
/Library/Google/Google Chrome Master Preferences/master_preferences
I am also trying renaming the master_preferences file to 'Google Chrome Master Preferences' in both of those locations. So far no permutation of their instructions seems to work.
You used
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Google Master Preferences File/master_preferences
But the support page says to use
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Google Chrome Master Preferences
In other words, the directory is ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome, and the file name is Google Chrome Master Preferences. (The file name is master_preferences on Windows, not on Mac.)
I try to auto-install a chrome extension on a WIN10 device that have no connection to the internet and thus can not access the Chrome Web Store. So uploading the extension to the CWS is no option. The extension exists as a crx file on a server in a network and on the device.
On Chrome Versions 59 and lower I could install the extension via settings in the registry. When Chrome was started, the user was ask if he wants to install the extension.
For this I used the registry key ExtensionInstallWhitelist and defined the path and version of the extension under the key "[...]/Google/Chrome/Extensions/[ExtensionID]".
But since Version 60 the extension does not appear in Chrome anymore. So I tried to auto-install the extension via an Active Directory domain policy.
I have imported the chrome policy templates and configured the entry ExtensionInstallForcelist (http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#ExtensionInstallForcelist) in the group policy editor. This policy setting is listed on the chrome://policy page in Chrome. But the extension does not appear in Chrome. The ExtensionInstallForcelist entry contains "[ExtensionID];[url where the crx file resides]". I also tested this with an url to an "Update Manifest XML document" which points to the crx file. Neither of them worked.
Does anyone know, if Chrome 60+ still supports this?
Is my configuration incorrect?
Any help will be appreciated, thanks!
I can't access internet through my chrome browser,but can access net through all other browsers in the same system. Tried uninstalling and installing chrome but of no use...Is there any solution for this ?
this is the issue....
Since you have already uninstalled it let's start here:
Step 1: Enable the Hidden Files View.
To do that go to:
Start > Control Panel > Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Click/Check the Show hidden files, folders, and drives option.
Uncheck the Hide protected operating system files option.
Press OK.
Step 2: Delete any Chrome or Google folders from your computer.
Navigate to the following locations and delete the Chrome folder(s). You can also choose to rename them. I would also search you computer for any google or chrome folder to make sure.
C:\Users\<YourUserName>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome
C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome
Step 3: Schedule a check disk
To do this use:
chkdsk c: /r
where 'c' is the drive with chrome installed. You can add other drives as well just in case you had multiple installations. To do this basically replace c with the drive letter.
Step 5: Reboot PC and reinstall chrome.
Optional Step: if the above still fails. Download CCleaner. Restart in safe mode with networking. Repeat the above steps but run CCleaner as the final step.
What you need to do is check if there is a proxy turned on system-wide or even in chrome, turn it off. type that "chrome://settings" in your URL bar of chrome: and search for proxy
Background:
I manage an offline network of workstations.
I have written a chrome extension that needs to be in the browser for our webapp to function
I have published it through the chrome store (but not made it public)
Question:
How do I install this extension without the internet
What I've tried:
Windows GPO: Requires the update URL to be http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx
Windows Registry: same URL problem
Unpacked extensions: prompts users, requires developer tools, and disables the extension when chrome is restarted.
install crx: disables the extension when chrome is restarted.
Any other ideas, or ways around this?
Chrome version 48.
I was able to do this on a regular chrome installation by doing the following:
Download the extension in crx format - how to download a crx file from the chrome web store for a given id
Unzip the crx file
I had to rename the _metadata folder to metadata
Open the chrome extensions page
Enable Developer mode
Click "Load unpacked extension..."
Select the unzipped folder
This worked for me when I needed to install Advanced REST client.
I have just:
Downloaded the add-on CRX file using http://crxextractor.com/
Opened the "extensions" page on Chrome.
Drag-and-dropped the CRX file onto the "extensions" page.
I got it to work actually, sadly forgot about this post until now.
I had the Business version installed as #gerardnimo suggested.
What I wound up doing is
1) setup and IIS server to serve both the CRX and the update xml. based on this guide. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/autoupdate
2) Then i was able to install the extension via group policy.
Here is a thread that I've found. He suggests that you can use Google Chrome for Business.
Since September 3, 2015, Installing Chrome extensions off-line no longer work (and here ) due to Google trying to prevent malicious extensions being downloaded and installed. To install an extension off-line today, require you to install a signed pre-packaged full Chrome install, using Googles Chrome for Business. This functionality is controlled by a policy list. Or according to this post, you can use their Dev or Canary channels to run any extension. Their latest builds can be found here
How do I disable Google Chrome extension autoupdate?
Solutions I've found for this:
1. Disabling a concrete extension update
That's what I wanted!
You can do this by editing the extension's manifest.json file:
On Windows: C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\<EXTENSION-ID>\<VERSION>\manifest.json (find out the extension's ID by enabling Developer Mode in the extension settings page)
On MacOS: Open /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/EXTENSION-ID/VERSION/manifest.json in a text editor.
On Ubuntu for Chromium: ${HOME}/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences
In this file, set the "update_url" property to something invalid like "https://localhost" for example. For the given url, it makes auto-updating that extension as simply impossible.
Source: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/l3zOZeO-5-M/Y7VaR0KCWNIJ
2. Disabling all Google Chrome extension updates
For any OS: Just type chrome://plugins/ at address bar and turn Google Update plugin off. Source: How to disable Google Chrome auto update?
For Windows OS: Set Registry values:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update]
"AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes"=dword:00000000
"UpdateDefault"=dword:00000000
Source: Making Google Chrome leave itself alone
If the chrome extension is on Github (which many if not most of them are), you can simply:
(1.) clone the Github repo,
(2.) reset the head to the version that you want, and
(3.) enable Developer Mode at chrome://extensions/
(4.) select the "Load unpacked" option from chrome://extensions/, and then select the folder enclosing the source code for the extension.
I recently used this technique to downgrade my version of Reddit Link Opener, which no longer supports users who have opted out of using that site's redesign. This worked for me on MacOS, but should work on all platforms.
If the extension is loaded as an unpacked extension (in the manner described above), it will NOT auto-update to a newer version.
Disabling update for a specific extension:
This can be achieved with the system policies, (more details here)
For Linux :
Get the installed extensions list (IDs), this can be found with ls -l ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions or chrome://extensions
Create the necessary directory if not present mkdir -p /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed (with root)
Create the needed file policies file touch /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/google-chrome.json
Edit that file with the code bellow
open the page chrome://policy/ and reload the policies
{
"ExtensionSettings": {
"ghijklmnopabcdefghijklmnopabcdef": {
"update_url": "https://127.0.0.1/update_url",
"override_update_url": true
},
"YOUR-EXTENSION-ID-LIKE-THE-PREVIOUS-EXAMPLE": {
"update_url": "https://127.0.0.1/update_url",
"override_update_url": true
}
}
}
Note: this can not be applied widely to all extensions in a single rule and also for each newly installed extension the file need to be updated
Hi all those solitions for me have one disadvantage is that all extensions have no updates, I needed to stop only for one extension in this case and wanted al the other to keep making updates.
I think I found the solutuion for windows
Go to
C:\Users\YOUR_NAME_HERE\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\YOUR_FOLDER APP HERE\
In that folder app click in properties and select read only an aplly that to all subfolders and files... for now for me solved the problem !!!
Regards xichas
this is a complementary answer to the accepted one https://stackoverflow.com/a/27657703/1422630 , allowing disable all at once on chromium
this is also only for linux (may be run on windows thru cygwin tho, not tested..)
this script will
backup the prefs file,
modify it,
if didnt succeed will output "FAILED"
show the differences using meld if installed
#!/bin/bash
set -ue
strPref="$HOME/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences"
cat "$strPref" |egrep "\"update_url[^,]*," -o |sort -u
read -p "existing unique urls above..." -n 1
strBkp="${strPref}.`date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`.bkp"
if cp -v "$strPref" "$strBkp";then
strUpdUrl="clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx" #change this if needed #TODO should match any URL...
sed -i -r "s#(update_url\":\"https{,1}://)(${strUpdUrl})#\1127.0.0.1#g" "$strPref"
if grep "$strUpdUrl" "$strPref";then echo FAILED >&2;exit 1;fi
cmdDiff=colordiff
if which meld;then cmdDiff=meld;fi
#$cmdDiff <(cat "$strPref" |egrep "\"update_url[^,]*," -o) <(cat "$strBkp" |egrep "\"update_url[^,]*," -o)
$cmdDiff <(cat "$strPref" |sed -r 's#","#",\n"#g') <(cat "$strBkp" |sed -r 's#","#",\n"#g')
fi
tested on chromium: Version 63.0.3239.84 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit)
obs.: that script also works for google-chrome, just change the preferences file path
After updating Google Chrome to v60, no solution found on the Internet has helped me
So i just blocked IP addresses, used for updating, by doing following steps:
Opened Chrome with blank browser tab
Waited, until extension
autoupdate begins, by looking on to network tab in Resource
Monitor
Wrote out all the IP addresses with high download rate. My IP address list was:
64.233.161.94
64.233.161.102
64.233.163.95
74.125.238.132
108.177.14.138
173.194.73.132
173.194.222.102
216.58.209.110
216.58.209.97
173.194.222.99
173.194.32.227
173.194.113.172
173.194.32.224
195.216.237.77
74.125.232.170
143.215.130.61
74.125.238.147
173.194.122.137
173.194.44.66
173.194.44.67
173.194.44.95
173.194.122.136
74.125.232.183
74.125.232.171
Created outbound rule for chrome.exe in Windows Firewall and added listed IP addresses to blocklist
After I enabled this rule, chrome was unable to update my extensions.
Just (re)install the extension via Load unpacked.
Let's suppose "Roboform Password Manager" extension version 8.6.5.5 dropped some important functionality, so you want to keep version 8.6.2.2 installed.
Go to chrome://extensions/
Enable Developer mode
Get the required version of the plugin:
If Chrome still got the version you need:
Utilize Pack extension button on the plugin details page.
Just copy the extension folder, e.g. C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\pnlccmojcmeohlpggmfnbbiapkmbliob. The extension id is visible in the url bar, on the plugin details page, e.g. chrome://extensions/?id=pnlccmojcmeohlpggmfnbbiapkmbliob.
If the version you need was overwritten already:
Get appropriate ".crx" from some extensions archive
Look for ".crx" in "C:\Program Files\..." (applications/installers sometimes bundle original ".crx" versions, unaffected by any updates)
Unzip (e.g. with 7-zip) your ".crx" (or paste the extension folder contents) to a non-temporary folder - you would have to keep those files in place until you uninstall the extension.
Click Load unpacked, select that folder.
If you just drag&drop the ".crx" file, Chrome extension details would show Source=Chrome Web Store, and it would get updated as soon as you click Update extensions now. But for an unpacked extension, you get a special "Unpacked extension" overlay icon, Source=Unpacked extension and it won't get updated.
Just tested on Chrome 79.0.3945.88 (64-bit), Windows.
Now, Chrome shows "Disable developer mode extensions" popup on each startup. Personally, I just manually dismiss them each time. I do not re-start Chrome too often.