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quanticle / lesser2greater

Turn Less(er)Wrong links into GreaterWrong links
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Possibility of re-adding support for Chrome? #2

Open crabdancing opened 5 years ago

crabdancing commented 5 years ago

This requires changing two words in background.js... seems like it should be really easy to add to your extension packing toolchain.

quanticle commented 5 years ago

I've made a chrome version of the extension and uploaded it to the Chrome web store. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Google allows you to distribute extensions on your own like Firefox does.

crabdancing commented 5 years ago

Sure they do. At worst, you could just load it as an unpacked extension.

quanticle commented 5 years ago

According to the docs on distributing extensions, they've stopped allowing Chrome users to install extensions from plain .crx files. Extensions either have to come from the web store, or they have to be hosted on your own server.

I could distribute it as an unpacked extension, but that would require the user to flip Chrome over into "developer mode", and endure annoying periodic prompts about leaving developer mode extension installed.

crabdancing commented 5 years ago

Yeah, I was thinking of distributing it as an unpacked extension. Also, disallowing users from installing .crx files is pretty user hostile and obnoxious.

crabdancing commented 5 years ago

I personally have developer mode on 24/7 and have the extension installed that way. No trouble so far.