Install and manage extensions

Yous can customize Chrome on your desktop by adding extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

Install an extension

Important: You can't add extensions when you scan in Incognito style or as a invitee.

  1. Open the Chrome Web Shop.
  2. Discover and select the extension you want.
  3. Click Add to Chrome.
  4. Some extensions volition permit you know if they need certain permissions or data. To approve, click Add extension.
    • Important: Make certain you lot only corroborate extensions that yous trust.

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

If y'all're using a computer through your work or school, your system might block some extensions.

Install on your phone

  1. On your phone, open the Chrome app Chrome. If you lot haven't all the same, sign in to Chrome.
  2. Discover the extension you want.
  3. Tap Add together to Desktop.
  4. Confirm past tapping Add together to Desktop.

The next time you open Chrome on your computer, you'll see 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, information technology also installs a Chrome extension. The adjacent time y'all open Chrome:

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

Install with Enhanced Safe Browsing

For additional protection when y'all install a new extension from the Chrome Web Store, you can use Enhanced Condom Browsing. If you enable Enhanced Safe Browsing in Chrome, it warns you lot when an extension you want 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 mostly takes a few months to get trusted. Somewhen, we strive for all developers with compliant extensions to reach this status upon meeting our programmer programme policies.

Install trusted extensions

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

  • If the extension you're about to install isn't trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing, information technology says "This extension is not trusted by Enhanced Safety Browsing."
    • To install the extension anyways, click Continue to install.
    • To abort the installation, click Close.
  • If the extension is trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing, click Add extension to complete the installation.

Manage your extensions

  1. On your computer, open up Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More than More and then More than tools and then Extensions.
  3. Make your changes:
    • Plough on/off: Turn the extension on or off.
    • Allow incognito: On the extension, click Details. Plough on Allow in incognito.
    • Gear up corruptions: Find a corrupted extension and click Repair. Confirm past clicking Repair extension.
    • Let site access: On the extension, click Details. Next to "Permit this extension to read and change all your data on websites you visit," change the extension's site admission 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 change site data. You lot tin alter your extensions' permissions anytime.

  1. On your computer, open Chrome .
  2. At the elevation right, click Extensions .
  3. Click More than Organize and then betoken to "This can read and change site data."
  4. Determine which permission to requite the extension:
    • When yous click the extension: This setting merely allows the extension to access the current site in the open tab or window when you click the extension. If you close the tab or window, you lot'll have to click the extension to turn information technology on again.
    • On [current site]: Let the extension to automatically read and change data on the current site.
    • On all sites: Permit the extension to automatically read and modify information on all sites.

Add or remove access to a specific site

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

Uninstall an extension

To the right of your address bar, look for the extension'south icon. Right-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 acme right, click More More and then More tools and then Extensions.
  3. On to the extension you lot want to remove, click Remove.
  4. Confirm by clicking Remove.

Use extensions on any computer

Arrange on your toolbar

To the right of your address bar, find your extensions' icons.

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

Hide extensions

  • To hibernate individual extensions:
    1. Correct-click the icon.
    2. Select Unpin.
  • To run into your hidden extensions: Click Extensions .

Show extensions

To bring hidden extensions back to your toolbar:

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

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