Opera Extension - persona.ini

Question

I am uploading my first Opera Extension. It is very simple. It is a toolbar button that launches a popup window. It works perfectly fine in Opera developer mode. Opera is not letting me upload it successfully. It keeps saying the persona.ini file is missing. Meanwhile I downloaded quite a few extensions already live in the Opera Extensions Directory to see their persona.ini files and none of them even have a persona.ini file. I can only find one example of a persona.ini file online and it must not be correct because it doesn't allow the upload either.

Has anyone experienced this? Why is this happening?

Answer 1

You're probably uploading the extension in .zip format, which is not supported — only .crx and .nex are supported. .zip is only used for Opera themes (hence the reference to persona.ini).

So, to fix this, you can do the following: when in developer mode, use the "Pack extension" button to pack and sign your extension. Then try uploading it again — everything should work fine.

Answer 2

I successfully uploaded zip package in Opera store.

I faced with same issue ("persona.ini is missed") when tried to upload zip package with root folder - I mean zip content: "Sources/content (like manifest.json). Chrome store accepted this package but for Opera you could try to create zip package with all content without parent folder (Sources folder in my case).