Extracting an extension

A Former User

104.0.4944.36, W11

I use an extension (V7 Stash) that is no longer in the play store. I'd like to install Opera with a new profile but I don't want to lose this extension which is working fine. Is there a way to save this extension from my current profile and put it in the new profile?

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest

@orshee Yes, save its folder in the extensions folder in the profile directory.

A Former User @leocg

@leocg Copy out the folder for V7 stash in AppData/Roaming/Opera Software/Default/Extensions and paste that into the new profile? Hope it's that easy. Thanks. (think I'll back up first though)

A Former User @Guest

It turns out that extension folders copied into Extensions are not recognized by Opera unless I am making some mistake. Sounded too good to be true.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

Place the extension folder on your desktop instead. Then, in Opera, goto the URL opera://extensions, turn on developer mode, click "load unpacked" and point it to the version folder in the extension folder on your desktop where manifest.json is.

Before doing that though, edit manifest.json and remove the "key:"value" entry and the "update_url":"value" entry. Make sure to also remove the commas separating them from the other entries too.

A Former User @burnout426

@burnout426
Thanks burnout. Actually what I am trying to do is get rid of the .opera folders that keeps showing up in downloads. Once upon a time you told me to install to Program Files instead of appdata and that worked. But now the installer won't allow installing to anything but appdata/local/programs. Is there a way now to get rid of those annoying .opera folders that keep popping up?

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest

@orshee I would close Opera and delete everything in "C:\windows\temp" and "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\temp". There are installer temp files there that might need to be cleared.