Google Plus photos extension for non Chromebook Pixels

26 Jun 2013

Earlier today Google released a new Chrome extension for Google+ Photos that only works on the new Chromebook Pixel.

I’ve been after the functionality of this extension for my non-Pixel PCs/laptops. So quickly unminifed the source code, removed the pixel only limiation and loaded in Chrome.

The extension works fine - but may be missing some features that are in the Pixel version.

I’ve uploaded this extension to GitHub but won’t be uploading to the chrome webstore or distributing a .crx for it. Installation instructions are below.

https://github.com/justinkelly/google_plus_photos

ReadMe from GitHub

Status

• The original extensions javascript has been unminified and adjusted so that it not starts on a non Chromebook Pixel

Install

• Download
  • the .zip https://github.com/justinkelly/google_plus_photos/archive/master.zip and unzip
  • or the git repository https://github.com/justinkelly/google_plus_photos.git
• In Chrome open chrome://flags and Enable ‘Experimental Extensions APIs’
  • refer screenshot below
• In Chrome Manage Extensions page enable ‘Developer mode’
  • refer 1. in screenshot below
• Then click ‘Load unpacked extension’ and choose the folder for this git repo

Use

Once installed you can now launch Google+ Photos from your Chrome apps menu, refer below screenshot of startup in Win 7