CODEWITHSUNDEEP
google-chromegoogle-chrome-extension
John Doe
John Doe

Reputation: 67

Are unpacked Chrome extensions automatically updated?

I want to use an old version of Evernote Web Clipper and prevent the browser from updating it, so I extracted the .crx and loaded it as an unpacked extension. Can Chrome automatically update extension installed this way?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3014

Answers (1)

nitish173
nitish173

Reputation: 118

No, chrome would not auto-update the unpacked extension(that is in developer mode). Whenever you load an unpacked extension, you get a unique app id which will be different from the one that is hosted on chrome web store or any other server. The update manifest returned by the server, which is the xml document required for updates, references this app id which would now be different. Therefore updates will not happen. To read up more on how updates happen in chrome, you can refer this link in the documentation https://developer.chrome.com/apps/autoupdate.

Upvotes: 5

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