Chrome Extension Published to tester gives 404 not found

Question

I'd like to publish a Chrome Extension I developed to some test users.

I created a Development account, payed the developer signup fee, uploaded the zip file and I published it to the trusted tester google group of which I am the owner. In the dashboard I can see the app status I expected (Published to tester).

The problem is that if members of that google group click on the extension link, they receive a 404 not found. Pls advise whats wrong here

Answer 1

I had the same issue just now. 404 when I access the link from a tester's account. The comment from James gave me a thought to try to clean cookies for the chrome store when I am signed in from the testing account. It worked!

1. Go to the link in CWS that you can find in the developer dashboard by clicking the name of your extension.
2. Click lock icon at the url text field.
3. Cookies -> Remove all

Answer 2

Very late answer, but in my case with the exact same scenario, it turned out that I was using the wrong URL to see it. This made it for me: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/<Plugin name with "-" instead of whitespaces>/<Plugin id>

Cheers.