Extension keeps getting disabled even with developer mode turned on

[Bob van de Voort]

The problem says it all, chrome keeps disabling an extension I installed every time I close chrome. When I open chrome again I can not enable it but have to reinstall which is extremely frustrating. It should not have to be in the chrome webstore. This all happens with developer mode turned on the whole time.

See image attached, the text to enable stays grayed out.

In the end it's my computer and I'm the one who should have control over what I do, chrome forcing me to not use the app or have it uploaded to the web store is truly obnoxious in my opinion. I thought that turning developer mode on would solve this issue but apparently not (it only allows me to install the app). When can't their be a simple warning window with a choice.

something like "Chrome has detected an extension that isn't from the chrome store, "Name of the extension".Do you want to disable it?" and then a choice of yes and no and a tick box that says: "remember my choice".

In the end I want to know how I can force my chrome browser on my computer to accept the app and keep it enabled (so what settings can I change).

[PhistucK]

You might be able to use group policy for installing off-web-store extensions -

https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3

If not, there is no way other than extracting the CRX and loading it as an unpacked extension, which is going to warn you on browser startup - every time, yes.

This is a security measure, a lot of malware used Chrome extensions without user consent (by adding them to the Preferences file, for example), so they eliminated this way for good. You cannot say, "this is fine", because this approval must be kept somewhere and malware will just use that place to override any extension blockage they want. Sorry.

☆PhistucK

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