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Hi,

Any instructions on how to do the above?

Thanks

This issue is the reason I came to the forums. I always save .crx backups of my extensions and just drag them onto the 'chrome://extensions' page. Sometime after Iron 69, this feature stopped working. I'm on Iron 79 now, and when I drag a .crx onto this page.. it responds with a file download dialog. Is there a workaround? ..and is this a known issue that will be fixed in a future version (I hope!)? Thanks. Great browser

Tested SRWare Iron 85.0.4350.0 and can report that installation of "privately hosted extensions" is now working, but with a few caveats..

Extension files can be packed by Chrome on the "chrome://extensions/" page in "developer mode", and then distributed privately.
However, in Chrome 76+, dragging a CRX3 extension file onto the "chrome://extensions/" page (in non-developer mode) results in the error message: "CRX_REQUIRED_PROOF_MISSING".

History:

• Chrome 64: adds support for packaging CRX3 file format
• Chrome 76: removes support for installing CRX2 file format, and requires web store signature on all CRX3 extension files

Documentation:

• https://support.google.com/chrome/a/ans ... 8?hl=en#76
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Ch ... on_history

A little googling led me to:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56930454
• https://crx-checker.appspot.com/
• https://github.com/gromnitsky/crx3-utils
• https://github.com/ahwayakchih/crx3
• https://github.com/ahwayakchih/crx3#crx ... d-chromium

The last link tells the full story and, most importantly, a solution:

• start browser
• open the "chrome://extensions/" page
• enable "developer mode"
• restart browser
• open the "chrome://extensions/" page
• drag a CRX3 extension file
  • successfully installs
• can optionally disable "developer mode",
  though there's no reason to not keep it enabled..
  since doing so makes it easy to install additional CRX3 extension files at a later time