Guide | Export / Import Extensions [CRX] 🧩
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Hi,
An explanation to back up ExtensionsTrying to mitigate posible future problems with AdBlockers and broken Extension Updates since
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Export
- Go to Extensions Tab |
vivaldi://extensions/ - Enable
Developer mode
- Back up the Extensions' Settings
- Go to each Extension Options and search for it [uBlock Origin example]
- For those extensions w/o the option, locate their internal ID name, search inside Local Extension Settings in the Profile [
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Locate your Vivaldi Profile path || Vivaldi Backup | Reset + Extra Steps--
Your_User_Path\Default\Extensions \\ Local Extension Settings
Packing
- Pack the ones currently installed and want to be kept without auto update
Open the internal numbered version folder or will show an error
- Numbered version folder
- Save the given CRX file
CRX can be renamed, [leave the Number version] & stored all together in a new containig folder or split them by name/group... adding each related Settings keeping the extensions separated
Example
*VivaldiTechnologies/VivaldiStuff/ExtensionsBckp/[Any_Organize_Preference]--
At this point I suggest to Create a Test Profile and check whether the steps are well done.--
Installation
- Drag'n'Drop the packed file [CRX] into
vivaldi://extensions/with Dev Mode enabled
Import Extension settings or paste each folder into Local Extension Settings in the Profile
You can also Find / Download Extension's CRX using
- Bookmarklet | Thanks to @QuHno
- Crx4Chrome
- GetCRX | Thanks to @Streptococcus
- CRX Viewer
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Once confirmed the install/import/restore on the Test Profile,
Go to Default Profiles, remove those Extensions and add the Exported CRX and its Data."You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you" · Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
- Go to Extensions Tab |
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See also here:
Manifest v3: Google moves new extension standard in Chrome: -
@Zalex108
What is wrong with using the extension GetCRX from the Chrome website to download .crx files? I have made backups of the installers for all the extensions that I use by doing that. -
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@Zalex108 said
At this point I suggest to Create a Test Profile and check whether the steps are well done.
this is one of the most important step!
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@Streptococcus said in Guide | Export / Import Extensions [CRX]:
@Zalex108
What is wrong with using the extension GetCRX from the Chrome website to download .crx files? I have made backups of the installers for all the extensions that I use by doing that.Done it!
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01.07.2023 | Guide update
- [New] Bookmarklet | Thanks to @QuHno
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... or simply by installing Extension Source Downloader
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@Zalex108 said in Guide | Export / Import Extensions [CRX]:
Back up the Extensions' Settings
Go to each Extension Options and search for it [uBlock Origin example]I read this and have no idea what it means. How to you go to an extension's options? I do not see any links labeled options in the screen above the statement. Are you supposed to click on the "Details" link? Is details the same as options? I have no idea.
How do you search for it? The text doesn't show the a screen for the step.
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Right Click on any of your installed Extensions
Go to Options
Search there for any entry to Export its Settings.Not all of them has that funcionallity.
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Tip for GNU/Linux Users who use BTRFS:
For backup purposes, if something goes wrong and you use Timeshift, you can always mount the latest (or any other) snapshot by doing the following:FIRST: Ensure that Timeshift is configured to backup your Home Folder as well!
You can do that via the settings button in the main UI. Then go to the »Users« section and enable the checkbox.
While you're there ~ it's a good idea to configure the other settings as well ~ according to Your needs.- Open Timeshift
- Select the desired Snapshot in the List
- Click on the Browse Button
- Browse to the desired file in the new File Manager Window that opens (might take some time)
- Copy that file to the "current version" of the Filesystem (normal FM Window) and override the existing file.
- Congrats! Rollback successfull!
You can also use this method to only extract some data from a snapshotted file in case you accidentally deleted it and don't want to do a (manual) rollback (which would override all data saved or changed after the snapshot was created).
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Hi,
Thanks.You can copy/paste the same at https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/51704/guide-v-backup-extra-steps
