
Of course, no idea how long this will work. Open up extensions in chrome Enable Developer Mode Click "Load Unpacked" Load the 'extension_2_5_8_0' folder. This will stop the extension from being auto-updated to the latest version with the reduced functionality.
Find maniest.json and open it with a text editor.
Open 'extension_2_5_8_0', the folder you've extracted to. Or you can just rename it from 'extension_2_5_8_0.crx' to extension_2_5_8_0.zip. Go to and download the chrome extension from March 7, 2020. Uninstall the currently installed chrome extension for google voice. The CRX Extractor loads a file provided, checks a magic header, version and. Load chrome://extensions/ Enable Developer mode on the page. Tools like PeaZip or 7-Zip can be used to extract the archive. In this example, we use handy HexFiend editor on Mac. crx file to a folder on the local system this folder is a permanent location for the add-on, so make sure it does not get deleted accidentally. zip archive 'by hand' using any simple hex editor. Obviously, you can extract the remaining. Īs a workaround, you can install the old Chrome Extension and get that functionality back: .crx file opened in the hex editor called HexFiend (on Mac) The header part of a. That is, until they removed the functionality from the chrome extension and now all it does is highlight phone numbers for you to call from google voice. In the popup window, Click the Browse button to select the extension root directory.If you're like me, you depend on the Chrome extension to make sure you've taken notice of any urgent text messages or voicemails.įor a while now, the extension has stop working for sending text messages but it still works just fine for reading text messages and listening to voicemails. Please refer to the following steps to generate the CRX file, it's not showing the security error on my side (Microsoft Edge Version 81.0.416.72 (Official build) (64-bit)).
As far as I know, for the Edge chromium extension from Edge store, we could only use the "Pack Extension" method to get the CRX file.