When you download a CRX file for a Chrome extension it creates a folder that contains 2 things ...

One is a folder (eg New extension) containing the JSON and JS files for the extension, the other is a file called 'Current Version' which simply contains the name of the folder (eg New Extension) containing the above files.

The questions I have are ...

What is used to create the 'Current Version' file as its file type is simply File

What is used to create the CRX file from the folder and file (described above)

I know that if you enable extensions on your Chrome shortcut it will get it's information from this folder so you can actually have multiple extensions installed.

I know how to create the CRX file ...

Just ZIP the file and folder and name the ouput with a CRX extension ...

Couldn't find how to get the Current Version as File ...

Cool, thats useful to know... Maybe the Current Version file is a renamed .txt file.. just a guess

I tried that ...

ie Extension.file, what it showed under the type was FILE File and it was still effectively a text file ...

How I got round it was to copy and existing 'Current Version' file and modify it and just do a save....

While writing this I've just had a thought, I might know someone who has the answer...

I'll get back to you ...

The Current Version file is created by Chrome when it installs the Extension

Installing multiple Chrome extensions

Stamga it's worth posting the above link in the Sticky under extensions ...

Will do

Thanks,

Think it will be extremely useful as there seems to be a lot of confusion out there about extensions and how to implement them :-)...

Have to say a lot of the credit goes to Charles @ Landemaine (author of AdSweep) spent a lot of time this morning emailing back and forth working out exactly how the Chrome Extension Installer actually works as Google seem to have withdrawn the developer notes for it (although you can stll get to it here ....

http://dev.chromium.org/developers/d...ts/extensions/

Anyway hope this helps the extension makers ....

(Think I'm going to have to give myself a crash course in Javascript, getting extremely frustrated having to rely on you guys - lmao)