[Houshalter]

"Apps extensions and user scripts cannot be added from this website."

Is there any way around this? Is it possible to jailbreak Chrome?

[dylz]

open the extensions tab, and drag the crx link from github into the extensions tab

continue button appears bottom left

[Houshalter]

That worked, but when I restarted chrome, it was automatically disabled: https://i.imgur.com/zDEdoeK.png

The button to enable it on the extensions page is greyed out with a warning.

[sina]

Are you in developer mode? If not, enable "Developer mode" and try again. It's at the top of the chrome://extensions/ tab.

[Houshalter]

I am in developer mode. It still doesn't let me use third party extensions. Here's a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/d5y8icz.png?1

Doing some more research, it looks like Chrome started doing this awhile ago to prevent malware, supposedly. You can now only get extensions through the Chrome web store.

[sina]

Hmm. I'm not sure what is wrong. I don't have a Google store developer account, otherwise I would have published it there.

Try this as a workaround:

  - clone the repo
  - go to chrome://extensions/
  - enable "Developer mode"
  - Click on "Load unpacked extension..." and select the cloned directory

The advantage of this method is that you will be able to upgrade the extension in the future with a git-pull!

[Houshalter]

This may only be an issue on windows. I will try your method, but I think extensions installed this way are also automatically disabled on restart.

I'm not asking you to publish it on the store just for me. I think the store is bullshit. They charge money from publishers, let in tons of malware, have automatic updates, and don't let people inspect the source.