Electron Extension Injector

injects Chromium extension into packaged electron apps. highly experimental. might work.

use Alt+Shift+E to access extension menus & settings & stuff. use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E to open and pop devtools for the view.

many extensions won't work because of electron's limited apis. there's a small compat layer helping with that. for the rest, deal with it.

on some electron versions, some extensions may segfault. electron devs are competent (lol no). removing references to webRequest in manifest perms may help.

notes:

• doesn't deal with updates. maybe if it ends up bothering me ill add it. make shell scripts. 🤷
• may not like updates and require re-injecting. deal with it. make shell scripts. 🤷
  • some packages like discord_arch_electron have builtin support for that. eh.
• sudo/doas probably required on linux. 🤷

node src/injector.js <path/to/electron/executable> <path/to/unpackaged/extension>
-- OR --
node src/injector.js <path/to/electron/executable> <crx id from the cws>

remove stuff in path/to/electron/app/eei-exts to delete extensions.

it doesn't work

too bad

can i get help for-

no

why

🤷

License

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