Developers regularly make updates to their browser extensions to introduce new features, improve reliability, and ensure that you have a smooth experience with their extensions.
Your browser should keep your extensions up-to-date automatically, but if you need to manually check the version number of your extension and update it, here is a step-by-step guide.
Check which version of an extension you have installed
By default, your browser will keep extensions up to date automatically. You generally do not need to manually update extensions. However, there are occasionally times where it may be helpful to determine which version of an extension you have installed.
To find the version number of your extension in Google Chrome, follow these steps:
- Click on the three dot menu in the top right of your browser, then navigate down to "More tools", followed by clicking on "Extensions".
- On the extensions page, click on the "Details" button on your extension.
- On this screen, you will see what version of the extension you have installed.
Manually update your Chrome extension
Your browser should keep extensions up-to-date automatically, but there may be times where a browser did not automatically update your extension.
This can be due to a variety of factors that are outside of the developers’ control. The most common reason is that an update is still in progress of being rolled out to all users by Google.
If you would like to manually check for updates, here's how you can easily check for updates on your extensions:
- Click on the three dot menu in the top right of your browser, then navigate down to "More tools", followed by clicking on "Extensions".
- At the top right of the page, enable the toggle for "Developer mode". You only need to turn this on temporarily, and it will not affect any of your other extensions or web pages.
- A new set of buttons should have appeared at the left of your screen. Click the button that says "Update", underneath the "Extensions" header at the top left.
- After you click on this button, wait about 30 seconds. You may see the version number of your extension increase, if there was an update. Once updates have completed, finish the process by turning off "Developer mode" at the top right of the page.
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