Impero Extension in Chrome

[mikes]

I'd imagine it would be free (as long as you have a support contract!) - it's still Education Pro  which they still sell after all, and they couldn't sell a broken product ! 

We enabled Manifest 2  as otherwise our Education Pro was showing as unsupported (but their browsing history still seemed to work) - I wonder about the new update breaking things as well more because apparently Manifest 3 is very difficult to develop for / functionality is a lot more restricted for developers (a bunch of popular extensions are just being deprecated now as developers can't replicate the same functionality in Manifest 3 - so we will see !

 

And yeah the extension broke in Windows 11 a year or two ago - you don't get the patches automatically you have to e-mail Impero and request they release the server patch. I would imagine they will then give the extension ID for the new v3 extension

[tom_newton]

Yes, Mv3 is HARD. We had our filter agent out last July, but we have still been fixing edge cases right through until recently. Having said that, by coming to the party late, they've probably missed out on google taking something away, jumping through unpleasant hoops to mitigate that, and then google bringing it back!

 

My advice would be to get this tested as soon as you possibly can

[synaesthesia]

2 hours ago, PotNoodleTech said:

Hmm i wonder if this will be a free update.

If it isn't, they won't be getting our renewal this year for sure. 

[ITGuyNW]

Has anyone dared to try the update?

[timbo343]

They are still working on 8.6.28 which will feature the new MV3 update.

[timbo343]

Just had the email from Impero to say that the new update is available to support MV3.

[CHiLL]

We had an email stating that early access is now available for Chromebooks, but no word on Windows clients yet.

[timbo343]

2 hours ago, CHiLL said:

We had an email stating that early access is now available for Chromebooks, but no word on Windows clients yet.

 

Ah yeah, I've just re-looked at the email - it's for chromebooks

[ITGuyNW]

We have installed the Windows update version 8.6.28 and fingers crossed its been fine so far..

[timbo343]

19 hours ago, ITGuyNW said:

We have installed the Windows update version 8.6.28 and fingers crossed its been fine so far..

 

I've requested upgrade to 8.6.28 for our site, will see how it goes.

[AndyT2017]

We've just been told that an MV3 extension for Chrome running on Windows should be available on 4th July.

[timbo343]

3 hours ago, AndyT2017 said:

We've just been told that an MV3 extension for Chrome running on Windows should be available on 4th July.

 

You can request the BETA from them if you email them. We are running 8.6.28 which has the MV3 extension.

[AndyT2017]

3 hours ago, timbo343 said:

 

You can request the BETA from them if you email them. We are running 8.6.28 which has the MV3 extension.

Thanks, good to know.

[timbo343]

I spy a ChromeOS 8631 version of Impero on our Chromebooks which are connecting to our Impero EdPro server.

 

Does anyone know if 8631 is for public release of Ed Pro?

 

Update, yep, 8631 is showing in the Automatic Updates in Impero Server - released 14th July 2025.

[Jawloms]

So we've been pushing out the old version of the Chrome extension, and now obviously we want to push out the new one. Is it as simple as just changing the address in the “Configure the list of force-installed apps and extensions” policy, or do I need to create a whole new policy?

[OLPTech]

That’s all we did which worked, used the existing policy but changed the chrome extension ID to their new extension. 

[FragglePete]

Just been doing this ourselves over the last couple of days.

 

Initially, couldn't get thumbnails or screenshots from the Chromebooks.  Had to be updated to Impero v8.6.32 as this was a known issue.  Even then, the update on my desktop PC didn't include all the necessary files so had to do clean install of Impero (remove and re-install) before Thumbnails would show.   looks like I need to check all our PCs that would normally be used to monitor Chromebooks by staff now!!!

 

And, also noticed that within Chrome on Windows, the websites weren't being recording in a users 'recent history' within the Console.  But, it would appear there is a bit of a lag before this gets updated.

 

Fair play to Impero Support - they've been pretty responsive on this helping me get to the bottom of this.

 

Pete

 

[mikes]

Did they e-mail you saying the update is ready? all I have had is the e-mail in June about the Early Access  but nothing since then confirming the final??   We have Chromebooks showing up still in Impero but I haven't checked to see if these are just lagging un-updated ones yet (to the new chromeos)

[FragglePete]

I just had it on my radar to do over the Summer, so made a point of contacting them and getting the newer version released to us and went from there.

 

Once I was happy it was all up and running, we then started the process of allowing all our Chromebooks to update to the latest ChromeOS they would go to.

 

Pete

 

[mikes]

Pushed it out but now our users are getting an Upgrade Browser notification when trying to search Google Images - and if I manually try and go to google.com it fails "re-directed you too many times" - but searching for a normal string in the address bar does return as a google search - am investigating further

[Listerisonfire]

Hi 

 

Im struggling seeing my chrome books when deploy Impero by the guide, I have put my IP address of where the impero server is into a bookmark (I dont understand how that lets me see my Impero server) and i dont see it still has anyone got anything they had to do extra to see your devices?

[synaesthesia]

Needs to be specifically in managed bookmarks which must also then be forced. I also have impero_server in DNS but I think that's only for windows clients.

Also make sure you're definitely using the MV3 extension.

[ITGuyNW]

I have the newer extension and it seems to take forever to block sites, something like 5-10 seconds before it wakes up.

 

Anyone else experiencing this?