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monmonja
monmonja

Reputation: 2264

Location of CRX in chrome after installation?

Im doing a project that involves browser extension. In firefox i do know the location of where the extensions will be after you download them (under your profile folder) and I was wondering where does Chrome hides the crx after you install them? Especially in mac.

I'm doing this coz i find it easier to build extension by look how other people tackles the problem especially XPCOM and now bumping into some issue with chrome extensions.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 38332

Answers (2)

JDavis
JDavis

Reputation: 3318

CRX files are basically ZIP files. After you install an extension, all the files are in a folder named according to the extension ID. To get the extension ID, go to chrome://extensions/ and make sure Developer mode is checked.

Installed Chrome extension directories:

Mac

/Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions

Windows 7

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions

Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Linux

~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/

Note: Additional directories are created when you have multiple profiles in Chrome. To get to an extension installed for the second profile, replace /Default with /Profile 1.

Upvotes: 38

Max Shawabkeh
Max Shawabkeh

Reputation: 38623

On Windows that's:

%Chrome Install Path%\User Data\Default\Extensions\%ID%

I suppose it's something similar on Mac.

Upvotes: 3

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