Install an extension

The files of an extension lie on this computer once and serve the profiles on it. The switch belongs to one profile, so an extension enabled for one account stays off for the rest.

Install downloads the extension from the Chrome Web Store and checks its signature, and enabling records your choice for the profile. The counter at the top right shows how many extensions the chosen profile has on, your own included, and the limit.

The cards are ready entries from the Chrome Web Store, sorted by name. Enable on a card whose files are not here yet installs them first and then switches the extension on.

1. 1

   Open the Extensions tab

   In the left column, under History.

2. 2

   Choose the profile

   The Profile list at the top of the screen.

3. 3

   Find the card

   The All categories list at the top right narrows the cards.

4. 4

   Press Enable

   The button at the bottom right of the card.

5. 5

   Launch the profile

   The extension loads when the profile starts.

An extension outside the catalog comes in through Install by store link, the field under the note. Paste the address of its page in the Chrome Web Store and press Install next to the field.

A link that is not an extension page of the store is turned down at once, before anything downloads. The file itself is checked for the store signature and for being the extension the link names, and it has to be a third-generation extension.

Once it is in place, a card with the extension's own name joins the others, and you enable it for a profile the same way.

A downloaded extension file goes in through Install from a file (.crx or .zip), the button under the link field.

A .crx file must pass its signature check, and a .zip archive may hold the whole extension folder.

Only third-generation extensions are accepted, and the new card, marked Installed from a file, is enabled for a profile the same way.

Unpacked files go into the extensions folder by hand. Its full path is written under Extensions folder on this computer, and Open folder shows it in your file manager, creating it first if it is not there yet.

For a catalog extension the folder inside must carry exactly the name shown on its card, such as ublock-origin-lite. A folder under another name that holds a third-generation extension gets a card of its own when you open the screen again. If the folder name has capitals, spaces or non-Latin letters, its card offers Rename to a usable name in place of Enable, such as Rename to my-wallet for My Wallet.

Select profiles, press Extensions above the list, then Switch on for all or Switch off for all next to the extension. The window names the profiles it did not reach, and why.

Disable on the card switches the extension off for the chosen profile, and its files stay for the others. Delete asks first, then removes the folder from this computer and switches the extension off for all profiles; when you are signed in, switching off a catalog extension reaches the account as well.

When the version on the card differs from the one installed, the card offers Update to with the card's version. Otherwise the same button reads Reinstall.

An extension loads when the profile starts. On the built-in engine a profile that is already open picks up the change at once, and in ARMANOS Browser it waits for the next launch.

If the built-in engine is the one that will start, a warning on this screen points to ARMANOS Browser under Engine. It says an extension works only in part there: its page scripts run and ARMANOS applies most of its blocking rules, but it has no button or window.