Chrome may not allow one-click userscript install now

Question

• Issue 128748: [Regression] Unable to install extensions by running .crx file downloaded in Chrome
• Chrome can't (directly) install userscripts anymore
• Chrome Fix: Extensions, apps, and user scripts cannot be installed from this web site

Chrome Canary is only letting me install userscripts from the Chrome Web Store via the one-click route. There is a workaround (drag-drop the script to the Extension page), but it's cumbersome.

This is still in dev/Canary, so they may polish this up/entirely remove it before pushing to beta/stable. Hopefully. Still, we better keep a watch on this--it may be necessary to update the installation instructions on all script pages to include this nit.

Answer 1

Unfortunately the news is bad all around.

Sathya has updated the tag wiki for script to include the following paragraph:

As of May/June 2012, Chrome no longer allows for direct installations of off-store extensions. To install them, you'll have to download/save the .user.js file, open chrome://chrome/extensions/ (or Click on Wrench -> Tools -> Extensions & drag the *.user.js file to the Extensions tab. After that, you'll get the prompt to install the extension.

Originally I thought this was a bug and reported it.