How to Open Plug Ins in Chrome

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Last Updated: April 15, 2019

This wikiHow shows you how to access your plug-ins in Chrome. You'll have to navigate through your Chrome settings to view your plug-ins. You can also navigate to your extensions through any Chrome page.

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Viewing Your Plug-Ins

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It has a red, yellow, blue, and green circular icon and can usually be accessed from the desktop screen.
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This is in the top-right corner of the Chrome toolbar and will pull up a drop-down menu with more options.

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Since Chrome has removed the plugins page, you’ll need to access Chrome’s settings to navigate to the menu for editing plugins.
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This will open a drop-down menu listing more options for editing settings in Chrome.
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This is where you’ll find a list of the plugins and modules installed on Chrome, which you can click to change settings for a specific plugin.
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Simply click on the preview icon for the plugin you want to customize and toggle its settings to what you want.

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Accessing Your Extensions

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This should bring you to a page with all of your extensions.

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