Default Chrome Browser do not allow extensions

Hello,

I just installed OpenMandriva latest Rome rome 24.12 x86_64. I am on the KDE destop. I opened up the default Chrome Browser but I cannot add any extensions. I can enter the extension such as Bitwarden but when I hit enter, nothing happens. Is there a setting that I need to give permissions in order for this function to work? Thanks

Welcome to the community!

Unfortunately, ungoogled-chromium has an upstream problem that does not allow apps to be installed from the Web Store (and some that cannot be installed manually). If you need extensions, you can enable the repository for Brave from the Software Repository Selector application in the menu.

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Knowing that you can grab them from the Brave repo.

That is some excellent info right there. :100:

I think that is intentionally as Ungoogled Chromium strips “anything Google” out of it

https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-wiki/faq#can-i-install-extensions-or-themes-from-the-chrome-webstore

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Thank you zeroability, Wilson Phillips, and omvfan for the quick responses. I am not at my linux computer, but I will give this a try when I get home. Best regards.

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In your App Launcher, under System, you should see Software Repository Selector and it makes it so easy to add the Brave Repo.

Oh, don’t forget to refresh.

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Yes, and the developer extension that enables Web Store also does not work.

WilsonPhilips, Thanks. I added brave to the repository per your suggestion. Newbie here. What do I do next to refresh? I did the dnf sudo dnf upgrade but I don’t know how to access this repository.

sudo dnf refresh

After that, the browser should install extensions.

Do a dnf repolist to check that the brave repo is listed, if it is

sudo dnf install brave-browser

if you need to find if a package is available or just its name for installing you can use dnf search

dnf dearch brave - for example

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Thanks. I followed your instructions and I am replying to you using the Brave Browser.

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Sorry. I did that but still no luck with the default Chrome Browser.

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