Where to find extensions installed folder for Google Chrome on Mac?

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Macos Problem Overview


I can not find them under ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/; Where are they?

  • Mac Pro 10.8.4
  • Chrome Version 26.0.1410.65

Macos Solutions


Solution 1 - Macos

The default locations of Chrome's profile directory are defined at http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/user-data-directory. For Chrome on Mac, it's

~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default

The actual location can be different, by setting the --user-data-dir=path/to/directory flag.
If only one user is registered in Chrome, look in the Default/Extensions subdirectory. Otherwise, look in the <profile user name>/Extensions directory.

If that didn't help, you can always do a custom search.

  1. Go to chrome://extensions/, and find out the ID of an extension (32 lowercase letters) (if not done already, activate "Developer mode" first).

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  2. Open the terminal, cd to the directory which is most likely a parent of your Chrome profile (if unsure, try ~ then /).

  3. Run find . -type d -iname "<EXTENSION ID HERE>", for example:

    find . -type d -iname jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin
    

    Result:

    ![./Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin][3]

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Solution 2 - Macos

You can find all Chrome extensions in below location.

/Users/{mac_user}/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions

Solution 3 - Macos

For Mac EI caption/Mac Sierra, Chrome extension folders were located at

/Users/$USER/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Profile*/Extensions/

Solution 4 - Macos

With the new App Launcher YOUR APPS (not chrome extensions) stored in Users/[yourusername]/Applications/Chrome Apps/

Solution 5 - Macos

They are found on either one of the below locations depending on how chrome was installed

  • When chrome is installed at the user level, it's located at:

~/Users/<username>/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions

  • When installed at the root level, it's at:

/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions

Solution 6 - Macos

Go to chrome://version and get the right profile path. enter image description here

In this folder you can find the extensions assigned to your profile by their id.

To find an extension id, enable the Developer mode in the extension page (chrome://extensions). enter image description here

The id is now displayed within the extension details. enter image description here

Source: https://www.maketecheasier.com/view-source-code-chrome-extension/

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