Reviews & Comments of Microsoft Power Automate (Legacy) chrome extension
From March 19th, 2021 to December 19th, 2022, 14% user give 5-star rating, 3% user give 4-star rating, 3% user give 2-star rating, 80% user give 1-star rating. for Microsoft Power Automate (Legacy) chrome extension.
Reviews of microsoft power automate (legacy):
Extension doesn't working ??????
Installed by itself randomly on my Chrome without even asking...
Works well with Power Automate Desktop, web form filling actions.
The way this thing automatically tries to install itself without introducing or explaining itself seems incredibly nefarious, particularly in light of the "By installing this extension, you agree to the Terms at..." text on this page. It seems to me that those legal terms should be null and void for the many users who didn't even seek out the extension, didn't look at this page and only installed it because a popup appeared in their browser. Now it is impossible to even create additional user profiles in Chrome without this questionable thing trying to install itself. It seems to me that Google should not be allowing automatic install vectors such as this for security reasons.
Power Automate looks good but the Chrome extension does not work. Please fix it so I can stat making workflows.
It keeps suggesting to download the extension when trying to capture UI Elements or when using the web recorder! Waist of time trying to get it to work and it looks like nobody from Microsoft reads these reviews! We are paying subscription for your services, do your job!
My flow worked fine a few days ago. Now all of a sudden I'm getting a 'Failed to assume control' error.
This does not work. I added it to chrome and then the Microsoft program asks me to add it to chrome. Do not waste your time. The goal is to be able to automate a few simple tasks in chrome native web based apps. This is why I do not like Microsoft. Do they know that there are non-microsoft based apps used by windows OS. Hours wasted...thank Bill!
I wanted to love it as I needed a browser automation app/suite. Sadly, this product is very unreliable. It almost never finds the Chrome browser instance that it just launched, and so it can't run even the most basic scripts. I hope this gets fixed because the idea is great, and it's free. "Failed to assume control of Chrome (Communication with browser failed. Try reloading extension)." Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.SDK.ActionException: Failed to assume control of Chrome (Communication with browser failed. Try reloading extension). ---> Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.WebAutomation.Core.Browser.WebBrowserException: Exception of type 'Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.WebAutomation.Core.Browser.WebBrowserException' was thrown. at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.WebAutomation.Core.WebExtensionsBrowser.WebExtensionsBrowserLauncher.LaunchNew(ProcessWindowStyle processWindowStyle, String initialUrl, Int32 timeout, WebPageCourseOfActionIfDialogAppearsEnum dialogHandlingMode, String dialogButtonName) at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.Plugin.Chrome.Chrome.StartNew(ProcessWindowStyle processWindowStyle, String initialUrl, Int32 timeout, WebPageCourseOfActionIfDialogAppearsEnum dialogHandlingMode, String dialogButtonName) at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.WebAutomationActions.LaunchNewChrome(String initialUrl, String chromeTabTitle, String chromeTabUrl, String dialogButtonToPress, Int32 operation, Int32 windowState, Int32 attachMode, Boolean waitForWebPageToLoad, Int32 waitForPageToLoadTimeout, Int32 courseOfActionIfDialogAppears, Boolean clearCache, Boolean clearCookies, Int32 timeout) at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.LaunchChromeBase.Execute(ActionContext context) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.LaunchChromeBase.Execute(ActionContext context) at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Robin.Engine.Execution.ActionRunner.Run(IActionStatement statement, Dictionary`2 inputArguments, Dictionary`2 outputArguments)
Not able to use recorder even after installing extension it keep asking to download it. Please let me know any solution.
worked for a while, now all of a sudden doesnt
It solely selects divs and not input, anchors or other tags. It's fairly useless.
doesnt get detected by the recorder. keeps saying to get this extension again. this is so annoying
undetectable by power automate, made me frustrated
This extension sends data to a third party, and it is NOT a microsoft product. BEWARE of keyloggers !!
Absolutely trash. Keeps asking me to install an extension even though I have installed on Chrome and Edge. Even restarted my computer. Then uninstalled extensions and reinstalled. The desktop version is even worse. It never records my steps. After 2 hours of troubleshooting, I decided to uninstall. Do yourself a favor and save yourself the headache.
As much good the desktop version is, the chrome extension is very bad. It has so much potential I must say.
i have no idea how this got on my computer screw you microsoft
It works perfectly with the Power Automate Desktop App.
This extension was installed in my browser without my consent. Uninstalled it immediately.
I did not subscribe to this extension, it was added without my permission. Don't do this.
Yet again a new microsoft tool wasted my time, again!!
Didn't work with my computer windows 11 !
does not work
this worked great on my Window 11 computer
doesnt work
Extension is part of Power Automate Desktop which part of Power Automate and I believe is available to users. You have this extension installed and then install Power Automate Desktop. You then do everything in Power Automate Desktop and this extension just allows for that program to control/view Chrome, which works fine. Should also work with Edge since Edge is Chromium based now, and there is a "Launch Edge Instance" in Power Automate Desktop.
Microsoft are super vague about which parts of Power Automate are included in which Office subscriptions. In the end you have to find out that you don't have, and cannot buy, Power Automate by wasting your time downloading, installing and trying to run the programme. I don't appreciate my time being so trivial to Microsoft.
Unfortunately, like many of your users it simply does not recognize elements within the browser. Offshot commands like "open browser" and "open page (as a tab) desktop app works great but it could be gamebreaking with more support.
Works great on every computer i tried
Counterpoint - Worked for me.
Doesn't even work. Sadly only the Microsoft Edge works.
Doesn't work...
This is the most disappointing extension I've ever used. It promises so much and delivers so little.
Does not work in chrome or edge, shame ms cannot create an addon for their own browser edge.