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NeverDecaf / discord-PWA

A wrapper for the Discord web client as a PWA, made for Chromium browsers on desktop.
MIT License
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[Suggestion] Extension download workaround for README #12

Closed NoozAbooz closed 4 years ago

NoozAbooz commented 4 years ago

Hello, As you may know, when you download the extension, it says its not from the Extension store and gets deleted by chrome. I found that if you right-click the download link and save it as a link, chrome doesn't remove it and you can even upload it to chrome with dev mode on. I suggest this be added to README.

ghost commented 4 years ago

This behavior is handled by the chrome flag #extension-mime-request-handling. The flag's default value is Always prompt for installation. There are a number of ways to get around the problem.

You can change this flag to Download as regular file, then visit the link in Chromium. You can visit the link in another browser such as Firefox, which downloads the extension as a regular file by default. I haven't tried your suggestion, but perhaps it's viable for Chrome users.

I was under the impression that it wasn't possible anymore to install third-party extensions to Chrome (the mainstream one, not Chromium or Ungoogled Chromium, which I know it works on) due to security restrictions. Are you saying you were able to get it working on Chrome, or Chromium? If it's Chrome, this is news to me.

NeverDecaf commented 4 years ago

IIRC #extension-mime-request-handling is a flag added by ungoogled-chromium and isn't available in vanilla Chrome/Chromium.

NoozAbooz commented 4 years ago

For me, I was using the chromium which came default with rpi os