astrabacus / web-extension

mega.nz browser extensions

mega.nz browser extension

This is the repository for our browser extensions, using the WebExtension API for the different browsers ^{(Chrome, Firefox, ...)}

Thanks to this extension you will reduce loading times, improve download performance, and strengthen security.

Read more at https://mega.nz/extensions

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Installation

git clone --recursive https://github.com/meganz/web-extension.git

Next launch Google Chrome and go to the URL: chrome://extensions/

In that page, enable "Developer mode" if it isn't already, and click "Load unpacked", then select the folder where you did cloned this repository. (You can ignore the warning about Unrecognized manifest key 'applications')

You're done! Click the toolbar button to go to our website (i.e. extension)

The same instructions does apply to other Chromium-based browsers, such as Opera or the new Edge

Under Firefox, go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox, next click on Load temporary Add-On and select the manifest.json file.

Updating

While this repository is rarely updated, since it does only contains the extension core files, we do release weekly updates for our web-client which you can find here as a submodule.

Hence, to keep your cloned repository and extension updated, you will need to update both this repository and the submodule, you can do so as below:

git pull
git submodule update --remote --merge

Afterwards, go to chrome://extensions/ and click the reload button for the extension.

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If you don't have the git program installed, you can instead download this repository and the submodule as ZIP archives, to do so click the green button saying "clone or download" in the top-right side of the file listing and then "Download ZIP"

Alternatively, you can just follow the following links to do so:

https://github.com/meganz/web-extension/zipball/master/
https://github.com/meganz/webclient/zipball/master/

You will need to extract the second archive into the "webclient" folder of the first one (without the sub-folder!)

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If you need further help, don't hesitate to check out our help center at https://mega.nz/help