Windows 10: Google Chrome Extensions Updating stuck for Developer mode.

So on the Extensions page in Chrome (running version 72.0.3626.96) if you turn on Developer mode you can manually check for up updates, but on one of my machines it gets stuck. All I get is the "Updating..." notice in the lower left of the browser. I left it go for several minutes, and it never completed. I tried several times. This in on a full install with admin rights on Windows version 1803 fully updated. I have another install on a work PC that was installed without admin rights, and when I check on that one, it only takes less than ten seconds to complete. I tried disabling all extensions, but it still gets stuck. Anyone else have this happen, and is there a fix? I'm thinking Windows is blocking it somehow. I'm syncing chrome profiles, and tried rebooting the PC, so I'm at a loss.

PS: I got to this point because an extension required new permissions after it auto-updated on the machine a manual check gets stuck, so I know they are updating by themselves. I started playing around on both machines, and got to the manual checks just to see, and that's where the issues came from.

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Firefox says they're working on webextension support for their addons, potentially letting users install google chrome extensions on firefox for cross-compatibility or something, which is why I would really like to use the improvedtube chrome extension in firefox (its stupid to leave one browser for another because of one single addon/extension, I know)

has firefox made any leeway in that regard, because the developers of magicactions for youtube have ceased working on its firefox version and stuck with google chrome (all my attempts at contacting them about this have gone unanswered, and they don't even respond or use twitter anymore), and while google chrome is working for me so far, I'd like to go back to firefox so google chrome can stop UPDATING ITSELF, without my permission

 

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