Cannot install extensions directly from the NEW chrome web store about chromium-web-store HOT 8 CLOSED

When the new store is released it will be supported by this extension.

Edit: I've added support for the new store preview, you can try it by installing the pre-release

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Thanks for the warning 👍

This new web store appears to work by default with ungoogled chromium, at least on my setup it does Version 116.0.5845.141 (Official Build, ungoogled-chromium) (64-bit)

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Yes, the page seems to detect my browser correctly regardless of that flag, in incognito mode I see the message You can't add or remove items when in Incognito or Guest mode

When not in incognito mode I see this:

I tested with a fresh install of ungoogled chromium and I only see the disabled button even if I enable the flag or switch to incognito:

It appears my browser is somehow exposing more information to the chrome webstore page than a fresh ungoogled chromium install. The most interesting of which is that the window.chrome.webstorePrivate variable is actually defined and populated in my browser while it is undefined in the fresh install.
my browser:

fresh install:

For your case specifically, I would guess that if you open the console and check window.chrome.webstorePrivate it will be undefined when you don't have the flag set and defined when it is set, but I have absolutely zero idea how or why any of this is happening. (Note that you must open the console on a webstore page, as webstorePrivate will only be defined on webstore urls.)

I don't know if any of this information is useful but it may be possible to manually define webstorePrivate (specifically webstorePrivate.beginInstallWithManifest3 and webstorePrivate.getExtensionStatus) in an UGC install to trick the webstore into displaying the "Add to Chrome" button natively. I played around with this a bit but the "chrome check" that the store does appears to be pretty involved as spoofing the user agent and the webstorePrivate object still results in a disabled button.

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Your guess is correct. I checked window.chrome.webstorePrivate in normal and incognito windows, both of them is undefined.

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Thanks for the warning 👍

This new web store appears to work by default with ungoogled chromium, at least on my setup it does Version 116.0.5845.141 (Official Build, ungoogled-chromium) (64-bit)

"work by default with ungoogled chromium"--Did you mean "Handling of extension MIME type requests" in chrome://flags is modify back to "default"?

Currently, i'm using ungoogled-chromium 116.0.5845.141 in Windows and i select "Handling of extension MIME type requests" to "always prompt for install". Whether I disable this chromium-web-store extension or enter incognito mode directly (which also means disabling all extensions), the add extension button is grayed and unavailable.

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So i modify "Handling of extension MIME type requests" in chrome://flags back to "default" and enter incognito mode, the add extension button is still grayed and unavailable:

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Can the developer clarify? Will this extension work with the NEW chrome web store at all? Of course, now we can still choose the old version in the store settings, but I don't think Google will allow us to use the old version for a long time

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At least for me, the old store now redirects to the new store even though it says "Preview"

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