[Duplicated]Why was the "Install Chrome Extensions" extension Withdrawn ?

multitasker-5

multitasker-5

The former page for it in the Opera Extensions repository now goes 404 -- not found. I had it installed and successfully working on a couple computers, but wanted to add it for another. (I continue running Opera v. 99, without incident, and want nothing to do with Opera One. If & when I'm forced to stop using the older Opera version, I will simply switch to Vivaldi.) This gateway to being able to use Chrome Add-Ons was a truly important extension. ! There are at least a couple Chrome extensions I'd really like to add to the mix, just as I had them going on the previous machines. It may not even matter to me why this was withdrawn: I had encountered no stability issues. If there is anywhere that this add-on for using Chrome extensions has been archived, -- even a third-party site -- I would much appreciate being directed there. Also, if applicable, instructions on how to properly integrate that extension into the pre-Opera One version that I'm using. (I found a 5 year old page at Github, but it wasn't clear to me whether that was what I was looking for, or how to proceed from there.)

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @multitasker-5

@multitasker-5 As said, it was removed for no longer being needed since Opera can directly support Chrome extensions.

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multitasker-5 @leocg

@leocg

All very well, but as I wrote I am running v. 99, not Opera One, so that does not help me. I still need the previous (now withdrawn) extension, so I'll be dependent on whoever can supply it, or wherever I might still be able to find and install it from.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @multitasker-5

@multitasker-5 The problem is that a change in Chrome Store broke Opera's ability to install extensions from there. It was already fixed but in a newer version, and that's why it's not working on 95.

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multitasker-5 @leocg

@leocg

O.K., and thanks. The explanation makes sense and fills in that gap.

Let me then ask this, if you or anyone else may have the answer. I tried to graft the section for an installed, known to be working prior version extension -- from one Opera ver. 99 to another Opera ver. 99 on a different machine. This will be a crude, inexact representation, but close enough, and hopefully the idea will come across:

This (example):

in Opera, under \Data\Profile\Data

\Extensions
\bdallnkjchemfeicfdneeaidongbpdnj
\1.1_0
\metadata

\kgodbpmaebgibhnnejlcmcfpfenfmfo
 \0.1.1_0
  \data
   \icons
    \interface
     \resource
      \vendor
       \codemirror
        \lib
        \mode
        \sql
        \sql
        \lib
        \chrome
        \metadata

I realize that these extensions are not explicitly identified (until you look in the Manifest.json under 'Name:' for each), otherwise they are just getting some code ID string as seen above.

But the graft wasn't seen, and did not work. My speculation was that when the extension got installed, something essential also went into some Opera registry file(s) for them ?

Another question was whether there was something in these sections to click on, that might install what is in one of these older, transferred sections ?

I'm just trying to extrapolate from some brute force type hacks that I think I may have managed to do with other browsers in the past -- although their designs and structures were different. Sometimes such a thing might work, provided one had some basic grasp of the rules.