Install and manage extensions

You can customize Chrome on your desktop by calculation extensions from the Chrome Web Shop.

Install an extension

Of import: You can't add extensions when you browse in Incognito fashion or as a guest.

  1. Open up the Chrome Web Store.
  2. Observe and select the extension you desire.
  3. Click Add to Chrome.
  4. Some extensions volition permit you know if they need certain permissions or data. To approve, click Add extension.
    • Of import: Make sure y'all only approve extensions that you trust.

To use the extension, click the icon to the right of the address bar.

If you're using a computer through your work or school, your organisation might block some extensions.

Install on your phone

  1. On your phone, open up the Chrome app Chrome. If y'all haven't nonetheless, sign in to Chrome.
  2. Discover the extension you want.
  3. Tap Add to Desktop.
  4. Ostend by borer Add to Desktop.

The next time you open up Chrome on your computer, you'll run across a message that the extension was installed. If the extension needs some permissions, you'll be asked. To approve, click Enable extension.

Install with a Windows or Mac application

Sometimes, when you install an application on Windows or Mac, it also installs a Chrome extension. The adjacent time you open Chrome:

  • To grant permissions and utilise the extension, click Enable.
  • To delete the extension, click Remove.

Install with Enhanced Safe Browsing

For boosted protection when you install a new extension from the Chrome Web Store, yous tin can apply Enhanced Condom Browsing. If you enable Enhanced Safety Browsing in Chrome, it warns you when an extension you desire to install isn't trusted. Extensions are considered trusted when they're built by a developer who follows the Chrome Web Store Developer Program Policies.

For new developers, it by and large takes a few months to go trusted. Eventually, we strive for all developers with compliant extensions to accomplish this condition upon meeting our programmer program policies.

Install trusted extensions

When you try to install an extension, a dialog appears.

  • If the extension y'all're almost to install isn't trusted by Enhanced Safety Browsing, it says "This extension is not trusted by Enhanced Prophylactic Browsing."
    • To install the extension anyways, click Keep to install.
    • To arrest the installation, click Close.
  • If the extension is trusted by Enhanced Rubber Browsing, click Add extension to complete the installation.

Manage your extensions

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More More and then More tools and then Extensions.
  3. Make your changes:
    • Turn on/off: Turn the extension on or off.
    • Allow incognito: On the extension, click Details. Turn on Let in incognito.
    • Prepare corruptions: Find a corrupted extension and click Repair. Ostend by clicking Repair extension.
    • Let site access: On the extension, click Details. Adjacent to "Allow this extension to read and change all your data on websites you visit," change the extension's site access to On click, On specific sites, or On all sites.

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Let extensions read and change site information

Some extensions need permission to read and modify site information. Yous can modify your extensions' permissions anytime.

  1. On your reckoner, open Chrome .
  2. At the top right, click Extensions .
  3. Click More Organize and then bespeak to "This can read and modify site data."
  4. Decide which permission to give the extension:
    • When you lot click the extension: This setting only allows the extension to access the current site in the open tab or window when yous click the extension. If yous close the tab or window, you lot'll take to click the extension to turn it on again.
    • On [electric current site]: Permit the extension to automatically read and change data on the current site.
    • On all sites: Allow the extension to automatically read and change data on all sites.

Add or remove access to a specific site

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. At the superlative right, click More than More and then More tools and then Extensions.
  3. On the extension, click Details.
  4. Under "Permissions," add or remove a site:

Uninstall an extension

To the right of your accost bar, expect for the extension's icon. Correct-click the icon and select Remove from Chrome.

If you don't run across the extension's icon:

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More than More and then More tools and then Extensions.
  3. On to the extension yous desire to remove, click Remove.
  4. Confirm by clicking Remove.

Use extensions on any computer

Arrange on your toolbar

To the right of your accost bar, observe your extensions' icons.

  1. On your figurer, open Chrome.
  2. Drag the extension's icon to its new identify.

Hibernate extensions

  • To hide private extensions:
    1. Right-click the icon.
    2. Select Unpin.
  • To see your hidden extensions: Click Extensions .

Show extensions

To bring subconscious extensions back to your toolbar:

  1. Select Extensions .
  2. Find the hidden extension.
  3. Select Pin Pin.
    • Important: Some extensions don't have this option​.

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