{"id":207,"date":"2013-02-01T00:25:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T05:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplescomputers.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2013-02-01T00:25:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T05:25:43","slug":"solution-google-chrome-error-an-error-has-occurred-download-was-not-a-crx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-google-chrome-error-an-error-has-occurred-download-was-not-a-crx\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution: Google Chrome error: &#8220;An error has occurred &#8211; Download was not a CRX&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this problem increasingly often with the latest version (24) of Google Chrome. \u00a0It happens when trying to install an extension from the Chrome Web Store &#8212; and nothing seems to correct it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>An error has occurred<\/strong><br \/>\nDownload was not a CRX<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s the solution? \u00a0Visit the Chrome Web Store from within Incognito Mode, then install the extension from there. \u00a0Problem solved! \u00a0<em>(Or, at least sidestepped anyway.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this problem increasingly often with the latest version (24) of Google Chrome. \u00a0It happens when trying to install an extension from the Chrome Web Store &#8212; and nothing seems to correct it. An error has occurred Download was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/casestudies\/solution-google-chrome-error-an-error-has-occurred-download-was-not-a-crx\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[156,155,55,154],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casestudies","category-everythingelse","tag-error","tag-extensions","tag-google-chrome","tag-web-browsers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplescomputers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}