Download Chrome Extension for offline Installation

 Hi folks,

I tried to use my extension for offline usage for a VM based PC browser which doesn't have internet to download the extension.

So, I have come up with this approach where you can download the chrome extension (.crx) file.

Find the extension ID

Sample browser extension URL in chrome web store is below

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/previous-next-page/fmichikmgflpgibapdhepmodjdjemmda

Last word is the extension ID (fmichikmgflpgibapdhepmodjdjemmda)

Download the extension file

Browser: Use Mozilla Firefox or other browser but not chrome

Syntax

https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&prodversion=<<browser_version>>&acceptformat=crx2,crx3&x=id%3D<<extensionID>>%26uc

Example

https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&prodversion=85.0.4183.121&acceptformat=crx2,crx3&x=id%3Dfmichikmgflpgibapdhepmodjdjemmda%26uc

Install the extension

1. Copy the .crx file to your offline computer
2. Open Chrome browser
3. Navigate to chrome://extensions
4. Enable developer mode
5. Drag and drop the .crx file

Hope you will be able to use the offline extensions in chrome.

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Create custom mozilla firefox profile with browser settings customization in Ubuntu and Windows

Hi all,

Today I have customized my mozilla firefox browser with custom settings by creating my own profile in my user account.

Follow these steps in creating the custom profile for firefox in Ubuntu

1. Open terminal (Keyboard Shortcut Key: Ctrl+Alt+t)
2. Change the directory to mozilla preferences directory for user
• $ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox
3. Create a new directory yourname.default
• ~/.mozilla/firefox$ mkdir psr.default
4. Open the existing profiles.ini file
• ~/.mozilla/firefox$ gedit profiles.ini &
5. Replace the Path variable with the following
• Path=psr.default
6. Save and close the profiles.ini file
7. Change the directory to psr.default
• ~/.mozilla/firefox$ cd psr.default
8. Create a user.js file
   
• ~/.mozilla/firefox/psr.default$ gedit user.js &
9. Edit the all possible settings by following the references, which are listed down
10. For Windows Operating System mozilla firefox browser customization, you can follow this link http://www.pcc-services.com/kixtart/firefox-lockdown.html

References:http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/windows/docs/mozilla-pre-config.html
http://www.pcc-services.com/kixtart/firefox-lockdown.html
http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Linux/FirefoxLockdown

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Firefox 7 Preferences Files has been changed

Hi everyone,

The developers who want to customise their latest Firefox 7, there is no pref.js (preferences file, which we used to configure the firefox) and user.js (user preferences file).

We can use one and only one preferences file named syspref.js to configure the default firefox.

In Ubuntu it is located under /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.x/defaults/pref/syspref.js

Here we can configure our default homepage and proxies etc.

We can do the same by typing about:config in the browser address bar.

Update your browser and set up according to your convenience.

Please reach me @ psrdotcom@gmail.com @ for queries.