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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Apr 2018
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Cannot paste path into "Load packed extension" dialog

Reported by jefferso...@gmail.com, Dec 1 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Go to "chrome://extensions"
2. Enable Developer Mode
3. Click "Load unpacked extension..."

What is the expected behavior?
I can paste paths into the dialog.

What went wrong?
I cannot paste paths into the dialog.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 62.0.3202.75 (Official Build) (64-bit)  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 27.0 r0

I'm a busy man, I do not have time to navigate to my extension's location in that folder tree.

Chromium is not the only application with this problem.  That Browse dialog is just about the worst dialog in Windows.
 
It looks like [this](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.folderbrowserdialog(v=vs.110).aspx) might be a better browser to use.  It looks like that's the one that has the "Choose Folder" button.  That's the dialog that you should be using, IMO.  That one, you can paste paths into.
(Tried to delete that comment so I could paste the link without the ")" being included.  Unable to delete comment.  Here is the link again: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.folderbrowserdialog(v=vs.110).aspx )

Comment 3 by woxxom@gmail.com, Dec 1 2017

I can paste into that dialog, there's an input box under the folder tree.

Also, you can simply drag'n'drop the extension folder into an open chrome://extensions page.
No need to enable "developer mode" and paste.
There's an input box, it does not seem to understand absolute paths.

Did not know you could drag and drop a folder, that's nice - confirmed it works on my PC.  The process reduces to opening a Windows Explorer window, pasting the path into the address bar, and going up a directory, and then dragging the folder containing the extension.  Still, it would be nice if you could paste the full path into the "chrome://extensions" page.
*but it does not seem to understand absolute paths

(I turned off AdBlock and NoScript but still can't delete my comment.)

Comment 6 by woxxom@gmail.com, Dec 1 2017

I can paste absolute paths in that input field just fine and I've been doing that occasionally for the last 10 years in Windows 7. 
Cc: kebalaji@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback Needs-Triage-M62
Unable to reproduce the issue on reported version 62.0.3202.75 on Windows 7. 

@Reporter: Could you please check this issue by creating a new profile without any apps and extensions and please let us know if the issue still persist or not.

Thanks!

It works, I can paste in a path.

Sorry, I don't know what the problem was previously.
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Comment 9 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Dec 5 2017

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "kebalaji@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Closing this issue as per the comment #8.

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