I understand why Brave automatically disables extensions that didn’t come from the Chrome or Brave web store, but I do not understand why we cannot then manually enable them. I would like to be able to use extensions that are not on the web store.

Allow users to manually enable non-webstore extensions

edisondotme March 1, 2025, 10:15pm 2

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