Where does Chrome store extensions?
Storage Location for Unpacked Extensions
Extension engine does not explicitly change their location or add a reference to its local paths, they are left in the place where there are selected from in all Operating Systems.
Ex: If I load a unpacked Extension from E:\Chrome Extension
the unpacked Extension is still in the same location
Storage Location for Packed Extensions
Navigate to chrome://version/
and look for Profile Path, it is your default directory and Extensions Folder is where all the extensions, apps, themes
are stored. (If you have several browser profiles set up in Chrome, you will want to view the chrome://version/
page from the profile where the extension is installed.)
Examples
Windows
If my Profile Path is %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
then my storage directory is:
C:\Users\<Your_User_Name>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
Linux
~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/
MacOS
~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions
Chromium
~/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions
Since chrome has come up with the multiple profiles you will not get it directly in C:\Users\<Your_User_Name>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
but you have to first type chrome://version/
in a tab and then look out for Profile path inside that and after you reach to your profile path look for Extensions folder in it and then folder with the desired extension Id
For my Mac, extensions were here:
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/
if you go to chrome://extensions
you'll find the "ID" of each extension. That is going to be a directory within Extensions directory. It is there you'll find all of the extension's files.