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How do developers test their own extensions then? Surely there must be a way around this.

EDIT: I just followed the installation instructions and it worked fine. It says "Not From Chrome Store" but it's still enabled.

You need the source code of the extension and not the .crx to be able to load it and use it as a developer.

If you install via "load unpacked extension" you can get around it.

On recent versions of Chrome you cannot install any non webstore CRX, developer mode or not.

What version of Chrome? I'm using 36.0.1985.125 and it worked just fine.

When you restart, it would be disabled. There are two ways around the block. The first has been mentioned above - load unpacked extension.

The second is much more of a hassle and didn't work for me. It involves using group policy to whitelist the extension.

Ah ok, I had to kill all the background processes to really "restart" Chrome. Thanks.