I am writing a program where I need to make a button to enable and disable the browser extensions from application only. Need your help in that.

I am able to get the list of extensions from the browsers manifest. Json file but I am not aware how to enable and disable those extensions.

CodePudding user response：

I'm afraid you are not able to enable/disable extensions using Java. Extensions are part of user preferences and browser UI so you can't disable them via a button in the application. If you need to disable any extension, you can create an extension to disable another extension.

Update: After some investigations, I've figured out how third-party applications disable browser extensions. Take CCleaner as an example. If you need to disable/enable an extension, you need to close the browser first. That is because CCleaner simply overwrites the Preference file in your profile folder and adds/deletes "disable_reasons": 1, which turns off/on the extension. You can manually do the same, but it only works with the browser closed. If that is what you want, you've got it.

Example

Extension turned off:

"settings": {
       "TargetExtensionID": {
            "disable_reasons": 1
}

Extension turned on:

"settings": {
       "TargetExtensionID": {

}