I thought Brave was supposed to give complete power and control for the user:
I want to run a privacy respecting extension and I get this stup!d message, disallowing me to even enable it, even though I have had developer options enabled. Why can’t I make my own decisions knowing what is safe and not safe.
This tempts me to move to an alternative browser such as ungoogled-chromium
Hi
Alternative extension installation methods are explained below.
Go to https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/external_extensions/#faq-registry
Follow steps about how to add extension; steps depend on your OS.
Open Brave and add extension (below image for Windows 64).
Is this issue with any chromium-based browser?
Thanks for the steps
Works straighforward in MS Edge!
Yes, it’s Chromium. A lot of people in the past were trying to bypass it by using extensions like TamperMonkey where they’d copy/paste extension data to make it work. You can read a bit on that at https://superuser.com/questions/767286/re-enable-extensions-not-coming-from-chrome-web-store-on-chrome-v35-with-enhan within different comments.
Btw, @CerealLover and @joe232 can y’all try something?
So if I’m following what you’re saying, you have a .crx file that you want to install in Brave Browser? If that is the case, here is what to do:
- Unzip it to a folder. 7zip should do the trick. Put it somewhere where you won’t delete it, of course.
- Go to brave://extensions
- Enable ‘Developer mode’. The toggle is on the top-right of the tab.
- Press ‘Load unpacked’ and select the unzipped folder.
- Success.
I noticed those instructions at https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/nuc1he/comment/h0x0i13/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 and wondering if still works. I’m assuming it might. If so, might be another way for you. Not sure if one step is any better than the other.
THanks I will give this a try then 
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