Why nothing works on chrome:// pages and the Chrome Web Store

You tried to capture or act on text on the Chrome settings page or in the Web Store and Omni does absolutely nothing.

This is a browser-level restriction, not a bug and not a setting. Chrome forbids every extension from running on its own pages, which includes all chrome:// URLs such as Settings and History, the Chrome Web Store, the DevTools window, and about: pages. Nothing happens there because nothing is permitted to run there, for any extension.

There is no workaround. If a page you care about is not a Chrome internal page and Omni still does nothing, check that site access is granted in Settings, Overview, and check whether the site itself blocks extensions.


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