UPDATE (Jan 6, 2010): The Chrome team has turned on extensions on Mac in the latest dev channel build. Even better, you can install directly from extension pages without this bookmarklet. Hooray!
We just officially launched our extension on the Chrome extension gallery today and Mac users are having trouble installing the extension. The ‘Install’ button for Chrome extensions is disabled if you are running on a Mac.
You can manually download extensions from the Google download site using a URL like so:
The bolded part of the URL above is the extension’s public ID (a hash of the public key).
Here’s a bookmarklet that’ll re-enable the button and allow you to download the extension. It recreates the download URL from the current page you are viewing:
Try it out on the DotSpots extension page here. Click the bookmarklet and the Install button will be activated.
UPDATE: I removed the lang=en-US part of the URL. Some extensions fail to load with that attribute in place.
Note that you’ll need an extension-supported build. The next developer channel build should support it. If you are too anxious to wait, you can install the latest Chromium build from here: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-mac/34059/.
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Thanks for this. The button turns blue when I click the Bookmarklet, but I get an “Extensions are not enabled” error once I’ve clicked Install for a specific extension.
Tried it with Evernote. Are they not all supported?
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I’m getting the same error as Mark Avey “Extensions are not enabled”. Is there anyway to bypass this?
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Thanks for the tip. Oddly Bookmark Manager does not work on my version of Chrome for the Mac. So I cannot drag the bookmarklet to the toolbar. I am running V. 4.0.249.30
you need chromium build 4.0.267.0 and it will work just fine.
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I could tell how much efforts you’ve taken on it.
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For some reason I cannot get this to work on my Mac. The Bookmarklet appears in my toolbar. But I still get the “extensions not enabled warning” in Chrome.
Any thoughts out there?
The answer is what you were told above: the released official beta version of Chrome doesn’t support extensions (period), but you can get them with a Chromium dev build.
Yep, we’re still waiting on Chrome’s dev channel to get re-spun. It’s a real pain but there’s not much we can do.
but…there’s no support for the bookmarklet! it won’t drag and drop.
Awesome. I just got AdBlock working!
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same here..
how do you add the book mark?
Perhaps a little less self-promotion and a little more community support.
Your bookmarklet does NOT work on the latest Dev release of Google Chrome – 4.0.249.49 (35163) dev.
Try out the latest dev channel build. You don’t even need to use the bookmarklet any more.
Not much I can do about the Chrome team not turning extension support back on for the Mac dev channel.
You might have missed the part above where I mention that you’ll need an “extension-supported” build and pointed you at the Chromium nightlies, which are the only source of builds that are such.