Currently Chrome is not an open-source browser. Chromium is.
As for Chrome, unless you are willing to go through hoops, it is only willing to install extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
You are now jumping through hoops to reinstall something you had installed which Google removed from their web-store.
Now Google which is your application (Chrome) and service (Reader)-provider, is working against you instead of enabling you. It didn't use to be that way, but now Google has changed.
That's the uphill battle. That's the not enabling part. That's the not open and welcoming. Contrast that to for instance Firefox and you will find a completely different picture.
Firefox has no mixed interests here, and that means they wont pull moves like this.
As for Chrome, unless you are willing to go through hoops, it is only willing to install extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
You are now jumping through hoops to reinstall something you had installed which Google removed from their web-store.
Now Google which is your application (Chrome) and service (Reader)-provider, is working against you instead of enabling you. It didn't use to be that way, but now Google has changed.
That's the uphill battle. That's the not enabling part. That's the not open and welcoming. Contrast that to for instance Firefox and you will find a completely different picture.
Firefox has no mixed interests here, and that means they wont pull moves like this.