In response, companies are creating workarounds to allow for a seamless user experience, and in this post, I will showcase examples from different companies.
In all cases, the company’s web page needs to send the user to iceland phone number material the Chrome Web Store for the install, but there are different ways to do that. Below are examples from well-known Gmail extensions.
Note that if a developer does nothing, and leaves the inline install code in place, then the default behavior is to already send the user to that extension’s Chrome Web Store listing. As you’ll see in Method 1 though, some companies are launching it in a popup instead.
Method 1: Launch the Chrome Store in a smaller popup window:
Streak CRM for Gmail. When you click either the “GET STREAK” button in the upper right or the “Add to Gmail” button, it launches the Chrome Web Store install page for Streak, but in a small popup window, so that the focus is on the blue “Add to Chrome” button found there.
Streak pops up a window zoomed to show the "Add to Chrome" button.
Streak pops up a window zoomed to show the “Add to Chrome” button.
Interestingly, if you then close that popup and return to the Streak webpage, there is now another popup window with a button that says “Available in the Chrome Web Store”. There is also a sentence that reads, “Install by clicking the blue [Add to Chrome] button in the Chrome Web Store”, with the final words linked to their listing.
Streak's webpage creates a 2nd popup to remind you to install via the Chrome Web Store.
Streak’s webpage creates a 2nd popup to remind you to install via the Chrome Web Store.
Clicking either the button or the link then opens a new tab pointing to the Streak page in the Chrome Web Store (see Method 2).
Grammarly: When you click their button, they also launch the Chrome Web Store install page in a popup.
Grammarly's install popup.
