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Edge Policy REQ: Allow Extensions from other stores
An Edge policy to enable/disable "Allow extensions from other stores." would be very helpful. We currently use the allow extensions policy, in addition to allowed lists, and url/store restriction...
ashishpoddar
Microsoft
Microsoftnarutards Thanks for the detailed explanation of the requirements. We are exploring various options with respect to this.
I just want to clarify that as of now ExtensionInstallSources policy cannot be used to block extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
ashishpoddar, sorry I misread it, so to give the full answer in-line installs are deprecated (sehttps://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/inline_installation/) and silent installs were deprecated even before that (see https://blog.chromium.org/2012/12/no-more-silent-extension-installs.html?m=1)
- ashishpoddarYou are correct, the inline install method is not supported as per the link referred by you. However, note that inline installation is different from silent install.
- ashishpoddar
Daniel Persson
For force installing an extension hosted in the Chrome web store use a string such in the the ExtensionInstallForcelist policy. Remember to use a separate line for each extension that you want to forceinstall. as:pckdojakecnhhplcgfflhndiffaohfah;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx. DataWarrior21 is it allowed at to have silent install at chrome? Reason for my ask is that google chrome deprecated this a while ago (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/inline_installation/).
We are looking for the same solution like in the Answers written before.
Our Company want a silent installation of one single Chrome Store Add-On by Policy on the customers computer.
This Add-On should not be editable or removable from customers side. Customer should also be able to install other Add-On from Edge and Chrome Store for his own.
We tested already the "ExtensionInstallSources" linked to Chrome Store and also the "ExtensionInstallForcelist" to the needed Add-On.
It was not working in our configuration.
There are a lot more articles about this topic inside the Web.
Is there actually a working solution for this?
Thank you for the reply.Having issues with this as well.
My goal is to silently install an extension from Chrome Web Store.
I have added to the Extension ID to the ExtensionInstallAllowlist.
Configured ExtensionInstallAllowlist to *
And added the Extension ID to ExtensionInstallForcelist.
But the extension isn't installed automatically.
If I do the same with an extension that is published in the Microsoft Edge Store, then its silently installed.
In addition I tried to manually configure ExtensionInstallSources via registry with https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/* and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/* but it didn't help.
The user can manually install the extension after enabling Allow extensions from other store.
Is there more to it?
