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We characterize, in terms of X, the extensional dimension of the Stone-Čech corona βX∖X of a locally compact and Lindelöf space X. The non-Lindelöf case is also settled in terms of extending proper maps with values in $I^{τ}∖L$, where L is a finite complex. Further, for a finite complex L, an uncountable cardinal τ and a $Z_{τ}$-set X in the Tikhonov cube $I^{τ}$ we find a necessary and sufficient condition, in terms of $I^{τ}∖X$, for X to be in the class AE([L]). We also introduce a concept of a proper absolute extensor and characterize the product $[0,1) × I^{τ}$ as the only locally compact and Lindelöf proper absolute extensor of weight τ > ω which has the same pseudocharacter at each point.