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• Kazuho Okui wrote:

  May 15, 2009 at 05:45

  I tried it on Mac, but it didn’t work. Only Windows version allows an extension for now.
• Chris wrote:

  June 6, 2009 at 08:16

  I’ve found a dirty little workaround for this issue and felt obligated to share it.

  I don’t know if you’re dual-booting, or have access to a Windoze box, but if you take the folder with the long extension ID from a Windows Chrome install:

  C:\Users\”your user name”\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions

  and paste it into the corresponding folder in your linux install:

  /home/”your user name”/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions

  then start chromium-browser with the –extensions-enabled flag, it ‘just worked’ for me. Once you’ve restarted Chromium with the flag, go to chrome://extensions/ to verify that it worked.

  It seems that they’ve started building auto-install support into the linux port, but the furthest it got on my system was creating a TEMP folder in the Extensions directory when I downloaded the .crx file and copied it there, in addition to downloading it to the Downloads folder. It just doesn’t unpack the .crx into a usable extension. I found a python script to package an extension into an installable .crx, but haven’t looked into unpacking it at all. That’d be loads better than relying on a Windoze install of Chrome for your extensions.

  Good luck, and let me know how that went!
• Chris wrote:

  July 16, 2009 at 11:20

  This is actually a moot point now, as it seems that extension installation is fully supported in the most recent version of Chromium in the PPAs.
• erwan wrote:

  July 16, 2009 at 11:23

  Good to hear!
• Peter wrote:

  January 24, 2010 at 22:36

  This tutorial might help

  http://jaxov.com/2009/09/install-chromium-extensions-plugins-in-ubuntu-linux/
• Peter wrote:

  January 24, 2010 at 22:38

  I tried this tutorial and it worked for me…

  http://jaxov.com/2009/09/how-to-install-google-chrome-chromium-extensions-plugins-in-ubuntu-linux/