Unmanaged Edge installs extensions from the Microsoft Store and nowhere else:
it reads ExtensionInstallForcelist, blanks the value to [BLOCKED]<id>, and
reports an invalid extension id forever after. Writing that key buys nothing
and costs a permanent policy error plus a "Managed by your organization"
badge, so the script now checks dsregcmd and skips Edge with the two ways
round it. -Force writes it anyway.
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Test-BrowserInstalled probed App Paths under HKLM:\SOFTWARE only. Edge and
Chrome ship 32-bit installers, so on a 64-bit box their App Paths entries live
under WOW6432Node and a 64-bit PowerShell never saw them — the browser was
skipped, silently, and -Browser All configured nothing for it.
Checks the install directories first now, with App Paths (both registry views)
as a backstop, and prints which browsers it is configuring.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
They are Chromium: same CRX, same update manifest, same policy — only the
registry vendor key differs. The script now defaults to every one of the three
it finds installed, which is what the Linux counterpart already did.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both installers ended by telling you to load the folder unpacked, which is the
one install that can never update itself. They now offer the policy install as
a last step instead, and only fall back to those instructions when it is
declined or fails.
Windows writes to the user's own policy hive rather than HKLM, so the step
needs no elevation and no separate admin shell; -Scope Machine is still there
for every-account installs. Linux gets the counterpart script — a managed
policy file under /etc, which is root-only because Chrome reads policy from
nowhere else on that platform.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The dashboard-hosting stack from the previous commit is gone; it was answering
a question nobody asked. What was actually needed is Chrome's real update
channel, which an unpacked extension does not have and cannot be given.
So the extension is now signed into a CRX with an update manifest beside it,
served from the droplet, and installed on the trading machines by policy
(ExtensionInstallForcelist). From there Chrome installs it, updates it on its
own schedule, and puts it back if it goes missing. The manifest gained the
`key` that fixes the extension id, so an unpacked development load keeps the
same identity as the published build.
The self-update check now branches on how it was installed: policy installs ask
Chrome to check the update server now rather than waiting out its five-hour
cycle, and unpacked loads keep the reload-from-disk path. chrome.management
.getSelf() tells the two apart and needs no permission to do it.
The signing key lives at /opt/autofirmer-updates/key.pem on the droplet and
nowhere else. It is the extension's identity: a different key is a different
extension, and no browser would take it as an update.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
