Installing chrome extension from NSIS installer?

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I have an application that also has a firefox and chrome extension. I am using NSIS for the installer, now I want the installer to have checkboxs asking if the user want to install the extension for his browser.

To install the firefox extension it's easy I just copy the extension files to PROGRAMFILES\Mozilla Firefox\extensions{GUID}, but I couldn't find a way I could do it for chrome (from the NSIS installer).

Does someone knows how to achieve this?

Update:

External Extensions

Thanks what I needed. (I couldn't answer my own question yet because I have to wait 8 hours for not having 100 rep)

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google-chromeinstallationgoogle-chrome-extensionnsis
can you show the example code to get this working in NSIS? thanks! - Toby

2 Answers

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!define PRODUCT_VERSION "1.0.0"
!define CRXNAME "extension.crx"
!define CRXID "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm"

SetOutPath "$INSTDIR"
File "${CRXNAME}"  
WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions\${CRXID}" "path" "$INSTDIR\${CRXNAME}"
WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions\${CRXID}" "version"     "${PRODUCT_VERSION}"
WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Wow6432Node\Google\Chrome\Extensions\${CRXID}" "path" "$INSTDIR\${CRXNAME}"
WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Wow6432Node\Google\Chrome\Extensions\${CRXID}" "version" "${PRODUCT_VERSION}"
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The only way I could think of is to open Chrome for the user at the specific URL where the extension is located. Of course some user instructions beforehand. A more evil way would be to do the SendKey events for the user. Depends how much "dancing with the devil" you are up for ;)