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Monero Wallet for Chrome

Copyright (c) 2016 bigreddmachine.

License

This software is released under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

About

Now Available in the Chrome Store

Interact with a local Monero monero-wallet-cli via the Chrome or Chromium browser!

  • Monitor your wallet's balance
  • Send and receive XMR
  • Create integrated payment addresses
  • Check incoming payment information
  • Store contacts' addresses and information
  • Make fast payments to Monero URIs found in open browser tabs

Contributing

Please feel free to fork, submit pull requests or issues, or otherwise contribute in making this extension as useful as possible.

If you find this extension useful, please consider donating to the main developer:
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Installation and Use

Monero Wallet for Chrome can be easily installed from the Chrome store (See Above). If you do not want to install this extension from the Chrome Store, you can install from Github.

This extension is not a full wallet, but rather is an interface to Monero's official command line wallet. As such, it is important to note that this wallet does not store any sensitive information about your wallet (view key, seed, etc), though you can use this wallet to view these pieces of information.

For the extension to work, you need to have an instance of monero-wallet-cli running in "RPC Mode" on the same computer as your browser. To learn how to install and start monero-wallet-cli, check Getting Started with monero-wallet-cli.

For this extension to most easily work, your wallet will need to be open 24/7. For this reason, it is recommended that you treat the wallet as you would your physical wallet. In other words, do not store your life savings in this wallet, but only that monero you might use day-to-day.

Install from Github

If you would rather not install this extension directly from the Chrome Store, you can instead install it from this repository, either by downloading a tagged release or building from source yourself.

Installing a tagged release

Navigate to Releases and download the latest tagged release package. Then unzip the package.

Then install in Chrome:

  1. Navigate to chrome://extensions

  2. Enable Developer Mode

  3. Load Unpacked Extension and select the unzipped package.

Build and Install from Source (Linux/OS X)

To build this extension from source:

git clone https://github.com/Monero-Monitor/monero-wallet-chrome

cd monero-wallet-chrome

./build-chrome.sh

Install in Chrome:

  1. Navigate to chrome://extensions

  2. Enable Developer Mode

  3. Load Unpacked Extension located at:

    .../monero-wallet-chrome/build/chrome