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How to find out what extensions Chrome and Firefox have installed

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First post, by Kerr Avon

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My PC's SSD C: drive started to slow down drastically, it's obviously dying, so I bought a new SSD, installed Windows, etc, and everything is fine again. Everything of value on the PC is backed up so I've lost nothing, but I can't remember the names of the extensions/add-ons that I used with Firefox and Chrome. I can still access the dying drive via an external caddy, so I can read from it, so I was wondering if there is a way to look through the installations of Firefox and Chrome on the old drive, and find out the names of the extensions, so I can download them again.

Thanks for any answers.

Reply 1 of 3, by mothergoose729

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Look for this symbol on the far right corner ":" of the toolbar.

more tools

extensions.

Reply 2 of 3, by Kerr Avon

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Mothergoose729, thanks, but that only works for the version that's installed on the C: drive that you booted from. I want to know what extensions are in the browsers on the dying hard drive, which I'm not booting from, but am instead reading through a USB port + external hard drive caddy.

Reply 3 of 3, by mothergoose729

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Chrome usually does a good job of porting your extensions and bookmarks if you sign into google chrome with an account while you use it.

Beyond that, all I can suggest is that you look in appData folder. It might be in there in somewhere, but I doubt it's in a plain text file.

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