This fork of the 31 January 2014 version of 'Chromoji - Emoji for Google Chrome™' supports only textual emoji, now with color fonts.
Emoji Polyfill Extension
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19 June 2022: This version uses Noto Color Emoji in preference to Segoe Ui Emoji on Windows, for greater consistency and to properly support all flags and new ZWJ sequences and the Unicode 14 emojis; it also includes the Twitter Color Emoji font for a few symbols that Noto Color Emoji does not support, and it still includes Symbola, which Douros has not updated in more than two years, as a backstop. Keep in mind that you won't see the new emoji images on this extension page, because extensions cannot run in the Chrome Web Store.
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4 July 2020: This is somewhat delayed; a few months ago, Douros updated Symbola for the new Unicode 13 emojis.
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23 March 2019: Along with the announcement of new emojis for Unicode 12, Douros updated Symbola.
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20 June 2018: Earlier this month, Unicode 11 was released, and along with it, new emojis; afterward, Douros updated Symbola to support the new emojis.
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12 February 2018: Shortly before the announcement of the new emojis for Unicode 11, Douros updated Symbola.
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2 December 2017: Around the time when the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update was released, Douros updated Symbola to support even more emojis, and I did not notice this until today.
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13 July 2017: Douros has updated Symbola a little earlier than I expected, so I could update the extension before World Emoji Day; also, the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will get a better emoji input method, so the EmojiOne Keyboard will no longer be useful, unless you prefer the way they draw the images.
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17 July 2016: For World Emoji Day 2016, I have updated the copy of Symbola used in the extension so that it now supports Unicode 9.0; fortunately, George Douros did update the font after all, so that I wouldn't need to use the much bulkier SVG-in-OT fonts based on Twemoji or EmojiOne, which are less crisp at higher resolutions in their black-and-white versions, which Chrome falls back to because only Firefox supports color SVG-in-OT.
Speaking of EmojiOne, if you prefer seeing graphical emojis or just want a good input method, use the EmojiOne Keyboard extension; consider combining its input method with this extension's use of Symbola, by turning off Auto-Replace in the EmojiOne Keyboard settings.
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12 October 2015: Now the extension uses more lazy function definitions, and also ES6 Symbols and ES5 property definitions, to further isolate the effects of this extension from ordinary page scripts; also, the regexes used now skip over most Japanese text and CJK Unified characters, and I have provided a framework for skipping over more astral characters when figuring out which ones are probably emoji (using a regex or series of regexes to find emoji directly has proven to be too slow).
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In honor of 🌍 🌎 🌏 World Emoji Day, 17 July 2015 📅, I have backported some performance improvements from the UserScript to this extension, but I think this will be the last version of Emoji Polyfill 🌟; however, even if Chrome finally supports emoji fallback for the Emoticons block, I will keep it around for the benefit of older Chromium-based browsers. 🎉
Chrome 42 for Windows supports native emoji fallback for most emoji ranges, notably excepting the emoticons; this extension will not be worked on much, but it will stay for users of browsers based on older versions of Chromium.
Chrome for Windows still does not perform emoji fallback as other browsers do, as Chrome recently started doing on the Mac, and as all browsers (including Chrome on Windows) do for various scripts; for example, web browsers on Windows fall back to Sylfaen for Georgian and Armenian text if the declared font does not have those characters, and modern browsers other than Chrome fall back to Segoe UI Emoji (Windows 8+) or Segoe UI Symbol (Windows 7+) if the declared font does not have emoji.
This extension remedies that, by adding a few fonts to the end of every font-family property for every HTML element detected as probably having emoji; specifically, it adds \"'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', Symbola, EmojiSymb !important\" and bundles Symbola as a webfont for those who may not have it or the special Segoe UI fonts (for example, users on Vista, XP, or Linux). If you would prefer a UserScript, it is available on Greasy Fork under the same name as this extension (Emoji Polyfill), although it works a bit more slowly.
As the short description says, this is a heavily modified fork of a more full-featured extension by Locomojis called Chromoji, which I have heard will be coming back to the Web Store soon. If you want graphical Apple or Android style emoji, or a convenient way to input emoji, wait for Chromoji to come back (it will be linked from here when it does); for now, if you want to input emoji, try the virtual keyboard in Windows 8+, or go to GetEmoji or Emojipedia.
Notable related extensions include the now-discontinued \"Chromoji - Hangouts Edition\" (using Google Hangouts style emoji) and the still-developed \"Twemojify\" (using Twitter's own API to replace supported emoji with Twitter's graphical emojis on all sites, not just Twitter).
This extension's icon and promotional tile use the colored glyphs from Segoe UI Emoji, while the extension itself only supports monochrome emoji; this is a limitation of the platform (Internet Explorer and Firefox support color in Segoe UI Emoji, and Firefox supports it even in older versions of Windows), as is the lack of support for skin-tone modifiers for emoji (currently, you will see the unmodified monochrome emoji followed by an \"invalid character\" symbol, which is the combining character for the skin-tone modifier).
Additionally, flags are not well supported, displaying as two-letter country codes instead of national flags, even for the initial set of 10 flags that shipped with most Japanese emoji sets; also, keycap emoji are not fully supported, some being rendered as a digit in the normal font followed by the combining keycap character in the emoji fallback font, which doesn't combine properly because the font metrics are different.
It seems as if Segoe UI Emoji has support for just the Unicode 6.0 emoji before Windows 10, while it supports all Unicode 7.0 emoji on Windows 10, and Symbola currently supports the Unicode 8.0 emoji but none of the Unicode 9.0 draft emoji; the screenshot is of Get Emoji, showing some of the Unicode 6.0 emoji symbols rendered with Segoe UI Emoji and some of the new Unicode 7.0 emoji symbols rendered with Symbola.
Source Manifest.json
How to download and manually install Emoji Polyfill extension for Chrome
Looking for a way to install Emoji Polyfill extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.
However, you may need to install Emoji Polyfill extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Emoji Polyfill extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.
Method 1: Download Emoji Polyfill extension and manually install through Drag &Drop
If you ever need to manually install a Emoji Polyfill extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.
Step 1: Download the Emoji Polyfill Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.
Look for the Emoji Polyfill extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Emoji Polyfill extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Emoji Polyfill extension that contains all the data.
Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files
Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.
Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page
Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.
Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension
Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Emoji Polyfill extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.
Step 5: Complete the Installation
Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.
Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.
Method 2: Download Emoji Polyfill extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode
This is another method to install Emoji Polyfill extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.
Step 1: Download the Emoji Polyfill extension file
Select and download the Emoji Polyfill extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.
Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents
Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Emoji Polyfill extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Emoji Polyfill extension running.
Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page
In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.
Step 4: Enable Developer Mode
After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.
Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension
Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."
Step 6: Select the Extension Folder
Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Emoji Polyfill extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.
Step 7: Confirm and Install
After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.
Conclusion
Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Emoji Polyfill extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.
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