![]() ![]() Streak’s webpage creates a 2nd popup to remind you to install via the Chrome Web Store.Ĭlicking either the button or the link then opens a new tab pointing to the Streak page in the Chrome Web Store (see Method 2). There is also a sentence that reads, “Install by clicking the blue button in the Chrome Web Store”, with the final words linked to their listing. Interestingly, if you then close that popup and return to the Streak webpage, there is now another popup window with a button that says “Available in the Chrome Web Store”. Streak pops up a window zoomed to show the “Add to Chrome” button. When you click either the “GET STREAK” button in the upper right or the “Add to Gmail” button, it launches the Chrome Web Store install page for Streak, but in a small popup window, so that the focus is on the blue “Add to Chrome” button found there. ![]() Method 1: Launch the Chrome Store in a smaller popup window: As you’ll see in Method 1 though, some companies are launching it in a popup instead. Note that if a developer does nothing, and leaves the inline install code in place, then the default behavior is to already send the user to that extension’s Chrome Web Store listing. In all cases, the company’s web page needs to send the user to the Chrome Web Store for the install, but there are different ways to do that. Below are examples from well-known Gmail extensions. In response, companies are creating workarounds to allow for a seamless user experience, and in this post, I will showcase examples from different companies. This means that now you can’t directly install an extension from a company’s website–you can only do it directly from the Chrome Web Store. On June 12, 2018, Google disabled inline installation of Chrome extensions.
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