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I installed this extension on Chrome.

I want to uninstall it, but I can't seem to find it on the extensions page.
Note that in Chrome app market, the app shows the installation button as available, but when clicked I see this error: An error has occurred - This item is already being downloaded and added into Chrome.

I tried restarting Chrome but that didn't help.
Is there a way to remove the extension via Windows Explorer etc.

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Find a puzzle icon on the right side of already visible installed extensions (near ...). Click on it and a drop down of installed extensions is now displayed. Click on selected empty pins and it should work.

google puzzle icon image

Image from this Google support questions

Drew
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jazkat
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  1. Enter chrome://flags/ into your address bar
  2. Change Enable Enhanced Bookmarks to disabled
  3. Click Relaunch Chrome button at the bottom

You should now be able to install the extension again

Jawa
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To extend @jazkat answer, since mid 2020 Google now hides application extensions by default, you now need to look for the puzzle icon

“Our goal with this new UI is to make it easier for users to see what extensions can access their data,” explained extensions developer advocate Simeon Vincent in a post to the Chromium extensions forum in May 2020.

“When the user clicks the puzzle piece icon, the extension menu opens and displays a list of all enabled extensions the user has installed. The extension list is grouped by the level of data access the extension has on the currently selected tab.”

Here is a demo:

boardtc
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Okey. I find solution.

  1. If you login in Chrome -> logout.
  2. Go to %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions and delete extension folder
  3. Go to %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Extension Settings and delete extension folder
  4. Restart Chrome
  5. Sign in
  6. ...Done!

After the above steps, if the extension still does not show up in the "Manage Extensions" list, then there is a problem with the extensions cache.

In that case,

  1. Go to %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data

  2. Delete the \extensions_crx_cache subfolder

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For Chrome 75 in 2019:

The official documentation says

Arrange on your toolbar

To the right of your address bar, look for your extensions' icons.

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. Drag the extension's icon to its new place.

Hide extensions

  • To hide extensions, click the right side of your address bar and drag it to the right.
  • To hide individual extensions, right-click the icon and select Hide in Chrome Menu.
  • To see your hidden extensions, click More ⫶.

Show extensions

  • To show extensions you've hidden, click the right side of your address bar and drag it to the left.
  • To bring hidden extensions back to your toolbar, click More ⫶. Right-click the extension's icons, and select Show in toolbar.
    • Some extensions don't have this option.

P.S. For days, my LastPass extension wouldn't appear in the toolbar or in the hidden area. I couldn't find it anywhere, even after visiting chrome://extensions/ and disabling and then re-enabling it. What finally fixed it was disabling all of my extensions, then enabling just LastPass. Then it appeared. Then I was able to re-enable other extensions.

Ryan
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If you're sure that the extension doesn't show up in Settings>Extensions:

The default location for all Chrome extensions is

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions

When you navigate there, you'll find that all the folder names are cryptic, so you'll have to isolate the particular extension either by Date Modified, or by clicking in each folder and comparing the version number to the version number of the extension (find via the extension's page on Chrome Store).

To remove the extension just delete the particular folder, and restart Chrome.

Rsya Studios
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For me, I left-clicked in the extensions area and the extension that I was looking for had not been pinned. Clicking the pin fixed the issue.

El_T
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This looks like running chrome process is in some messed up state.

Windows Solution Go to 'Task Manager' & kill all 'chrome.exe' process by clicking 'End Process'

Unix based platform Find list of process ids for chrome using 'ps -eaf' & use 'kill -9' to use kill those process.

This will close active window. So, restart chrome. Hopefully, problem solved.