Googe's "One-click Kittens" extension not running

[Myles Barros]

I'm attempting to walk through Google's Chrome "One-click Kitten" extension tutorial and I'm running into some difficulties with the extension failing to function.

I downloaded all four of the files for the extension and have located them all in the same directory with no other files. When I add the extension no errors appear at the top of the extensions window. Clicking on the icon results in an empty white box. I've attempted to walk through the code with the debugger but, lacking experience, don't get terribly far – the debugger simply jumps into a VM file and shows no locally scoped variables.

I'm using a fresh install of Chrome version 38.0.2125.111 (including a wiped Application Support/Chrome directory) on a Mac running 10.10.

I apologize if I'm doing something daft – I don't have a background in web development and am not a habitual Chrome user.

[Karl Reid]

Common problem- the uses a Flickr API to get the picture of kittens. The example project contains an API key to facilitate this. That key is invalid and has not been updated.

To make the extension work you need to sign up as a developer with Flickr and get a new key, the paste this into the code. See

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-extensions/dXmRdgY1Wgg

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23952511/chrome-example-extension-not-working

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14604620/why-doesnt-the-kitten-example-in-the-chrome-extension-development-tutorial-load

etc..

Maybe some day Google will fix this :)