Fix Your Lost Google Chrome Extensions

For about one week ago I had a problem with Google Chrome. Every day I lost my extensions and the customization in settings. I searched for over one week to find an appropriate answer but nothing was for good. I even installed one program from the Internet which said is 15 days trial, but same problem appeared. When I closed Chrome and reopened it, a General Crawler was installed automatically and I lost all extensions and settings.

Here is the best answer I found on the net.

http://goo.gl/zaa7h

Any new extensions I installed on Google Chrome seemed to vanish when I re-started Chrome. This was really bugging me as I use delicious bookmarking and Colorzilla extensions a lot. I searched the net like mad for solutions. I updated to the latest version of Chrome. 23.0.1271.97 (Official Build 171054) m as of this writing. It dint help. I created a new user profile as Google help suggested. It dint help.  I wrote to Google through their bug report feautre. Nothing worked out. Frustrated, I switched to Firefox but somehow the charm of Chrome made me give it a last shot. I posted this question on superuser.com. One guy answered my question. Ironically, the opposite of what he suggested worked for me. So here is the solution that worked for me. ( NOTE: This may not work for you. As browsers behave so differently across OSs, versions etc. I am using Windows 7 )

  • Go to Settings by typing chrome://settings in your URL bar
  • Under Sign In, select Sign in to Chrome.
  • Sign in with your Google Account Username and password.

Chrome

  • A pop asking you to Confirm Sync Settings appears. Press OK, Sync Everything. Dont worry you can customize the items you want to sync to your Google account later. But make sure Extensions are checked and synced.

Options

  • Now, go ahead and install new extensions from Chrome Webstore
  • Re-start Google Chrome. Close all instances of Chrome.
  • Wait for some time. As you can see, all your extensions get loaded over a short time period

The reason I guess the above method seems to be working is that Google is syncing my list of extensions on to its server and when I close Chrome, as before, the extensions are vanishing for some mysterious reasons. But when I re-launch Chrome, Chrome signs me in again with my Google account. Every time you sign into your Google Account from within Chrome, all your Chrome settings are re-applied and hence the extensions which were synced to the server before and popping up again!

Do post any other solutions that worked for you as comments so that it helps others for whom the above solution doesn’t work. Cos I’ve seen this problem floating around in forums for more than 3 years now.

Good job, blogger!

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