Copy Chrome extensions locally between computers

copy-chrome-ext.md

Copying Chrome extensions locally between computers

Retrieved from Super User.

1. Locate the extension folder from an existing installation. You should find it in

    Chrome user data directory → Extensions → {a 32 "a→p" character hash}
   

   The Chrome user data directory is found under Profile Path at chrome://extensions.

   It should be fairly obvious which hash corresponds to which extension upon inspection, but you can often find a readme.txt, or a messages.json file in a _locales sudfolder, from which you can identify the extension.

2. Copy this folder to the new computer.

3. Go to chrome://extensions in the target Chrome browser and enable Developer mode by the checkbox in the upper right.

4. Press Load unpacked extension... and choose the version-number folder inside the desired extension folder.