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Updating and reloading the extension

Chrome updates extensions on its own in the background, quietly, usually within a day of a new release. The one thing that update can't do for you: a CRM tab you already had open before it happened. That's the part covered here.

chrome://extensions showing the Ervona card with its version number and a refresh icon
chrome://extensions — the version number and the manual refresh icon, if you ever need them.

Check your installed version

Two places show it:

Force an update

Chrome checks for updates on its own schedule, but you don't have to wait: open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode (top right) if it isn't already, and click Update. Or just close and reopen Chrome — it checks on every launch.

Why a CRM tab needs its own reload

Updating the extension replaces the code Chrome will inject into new tabs and page loads from that point on. It does not reach into a CRM tab that's already sitting open — that tab is still running whatever code was injected when it last loaded, which is now out of date. This is what a stale content script is, and it's the single most common "nothing's working" report.

What it looks like

Buttons in the popup do nothing, or you see: "Ervona isn't connected to this CRM tab yet. Batches, Send One and mapping won't respond until it is." Ervona detects this itself and shows the message with a one-click fix right there.

The fix

  1. Reload the CRM tab. Just the tab — a normal browser refresh (⌘R / Ctrl+R), or the button in the banner if Ervona showed one.
  2. Still stale? Go to chrome://extensions and click the refresh icon on the Ervona card itself, then reload the CRM tab again.
  3. Still nothing? Check for a duplicate Ervona install (two entries on the extensions page) — remove the extra one.

Reloading the extension alone never fixes this. It has to be the CRM tab. That's the one Chrome won't touch on its own.

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