TL:DR How do I reenable unverified extensions for development, after disabling through “Disable unverified extensions in Developer Mode” notification? Switching to Beta or Dev insider channel didn’t help.

Hello, I wanna learn about browser extension development, which ofc requires Developer Mode being on. Because unverified extensions can be malicious, you can’t make the “Turn off unverified extensions in Developer Mode” notification stop appearing, and so I chose to just let it have its way to leave me alone. Inconvenient mistake.

Doing this disables any unverified extensions that I sideload (as the notification says), so I asked CoPilot for help. CoPilot said I could enable the extensions again using either the Edge Dev or Canary channel, so I tried the Beta and Dev channel. Beta with and Dev both with and without importing my data from the normal Edge browser, but neither did anything, since all unverified extensions are still disabled, even when I enable them in the “Manage extensions” page.

Is there some way to actually turn off the security disabling, in the Insider channels (Beta, Dev and Canary)? I really want to continue learning about extension development, so it’s a little inconvenient that the unverified extensions don’t feel like being enabled ever again, even when they’re my own.

​TL:DR How do I reenable unverified extensions for development, after disabling through “Disable unverified extensions in Developer Mode” notification? Switching to Beta or Dev insider channel didn’t help. Hello, I wanna learn about browser extension development, which ofc requires Developer Mode being on. Because unverified extensions can be malicious, you can’t make the “Turn off unverified extensions in Developer Mode” notification stop appearing, and so I chose to just let it have its way to leave me alone. Inconvenient mistake. Doing this disables any unverified extensions that I sideload (as the notification says), so I asked CoPilot for help. CoPilot said I could enable the extensions again using either the Edge Dev or Canary channel, so I tried the Beta and Dev channel. Beta with and Dev both with and without importing my data from the normal Edge browser, but neither did anything, since all unverified extensions are still disabled, even when I enable them in the “Manage extensions” page. Is there some way to actually turn off the security disabling, in the Insider channels (Beta, Dev and Canary)? I really want to continue learning about extension development, so it’s a little inconvenient that the unverified extensions don’t feel like being enabled ever again, even when they’re my own.  Read More

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