No plugins means popping up flash ads, no twitter client, no readability plugin, no fun.
The repair procedure is quite easy. There is a directory of so called Local Storage where chrome saves all site and plugin specific settings. At WindowsXP its in
Documents and Settings/[username]/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/Local Storage
. On other systems search for Local Storage
folder or for chrome-extension_*.localstorage
file.Filenames begins with
chrome-extension_
and after this prefix goes the string we are looking for. It's address of the plugin on Google Extension site. At the end of filename there is _0.localstorage
suffix.To access such install site we need to recreate url:
from
chrome-extension_encaiiljifbdbjlphpgpiimidegddhic_0.localstorage
to something like this
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/encaiiljifbdbjlphpgpiimidegddhic
So the links for my favourite plugins RapidShare DownloadHelper, AdBlock+ Element Hiding Helper, Chromed Bird, FlashBlock and Readability Redux.