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Installing the Companion extension (plain version)

The Companion is a small browser add-on that copies the jobs you've saved on LinkedIn, Indeed, or USAJOBS into your WorkWingman account. It never sees your passwords and never logs in as you — it only reads the saved-jobs pages you already have open.

Engineer version with exact steps per browser: ../technical/extension-install-pilot.md

Because we're in the pilot phase, it isn't in the Chrome Web Store yet. You install it by hand from a zip file we send you. That takes about two minutes.

Before you start

  1. Download the zip from the pilot email or channel — only from us, never from anywhere else. Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera all use the zip whose name ends in -chromium.zip; Firefox uses the -firefox.zip one.
  2. Unzip it into a folder you'll keep around (for example Documents\WorkWingman Companion). The browser loads the extension from that folder every time it starts, so don't delete it.

Chrome, Edge, Brave, or Opera

  1. Type chrome://extensions in the address bar (or edge://, brave://, opera:// to match your browser) and press Enter.
  2. Find the Developer mode switch and turn it on.
  3. Click the Load unpacked button that appears.
  4. Pick the folder you unzipped — the one with manifest.json inside it.
  5. You should now see "WorkWingman Companion" in your list of extensions. Done!

Screenshot still needed: the extensions page with Developer mode and Load unpacked highlighted.

Firefox

Firefox handles pilot builds a little differently — the extension goes away when you close the browser, and you reload it next time. (A permanent Firefox version comes later.)

  1. Type about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox in the address bar and press Enter.
  2. Click Load Temporary Add-on….
  3. Pick the zip file itself.

Screenshot still needed: the Firefox Load Temporary Add-on button.

Connect it to your WorkWingman account

  1. Click the little WorkWingman icon near the address bar (click the puzzle-piece icon first if you don't see it, and pin it).
  2. Paste in the address and pairing code from your pilot email.
  3. The extension only accepts real WorkWingman addresses — if you mistype or paste something else, it politely refuses. That's a safety feature, not a bug.

Is this safe?

  • It asks for almost nothing: permission to remember its own settings, and to read the saved-jobs pages on the three job sites. That's it.
  • It can only talk to WorkWingman's own servers — that list is baked in when we build it and can't be changed from the outside.
  • Want it gone? Remove it from the extensions page and delete the folder. Nothing is left behind.

Something not working?

  • "Manifest file is missing" — you picked the wrong folder; pick the one that directly contains the file called manifest.json.
  • It vanished after restarting Firefox — that's normal for the pilot; just load it again.
  • Still stuck? Reply in the pilot channel and we'll sort it out with you.