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Bug 684470 - What if I don't have the browser plugin ?
What if I don't have the browser plugin ?
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: website
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: extensions.gnome.org
current
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Shell extensions maintainer(s)
Shell extensions maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks: 775528
 
 
Reported: 2012-09-20 12:26 UTC by Xavier Pucel
Modified: 2018-09-24 10:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Xavier Pucel 2012-09-20 12:26:47 UTC 
The webpage https://extensions.gnome.org/about/ helped me understand why I can't install extensions, but not how to fix the problem.

The "GNOME Shell Integration" plugin is not installed on any of my browsers. What should I do ? I can't find any way to find and install this browser plugin, or to download and manually install the extensions.
Comment 1 Xavier Pucel 2012-09-20 12:31:01 UTC 
Sorry, I forgot the usual :
- Ubuntu Precise just upgraded from Lucid (doing a fresh install is not possible)
- Gnome shell 3.4.1-0ubuntu2
- Thanks for your work !! It's awesome.
Comment 2 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2012-09-20 15:50:28 UTC 
It should be shipped with the gnome-shell package. Ubuntu/Debian may have split it out into a separate package, which makes no sense to me.
Comment 3 Xavier Pucel 2012-09-21 10:03:56 UTC 
Alright, sorry for that, I was looking in the extensions tab, and not in the plugins tab. The gnome shell plugin is actually installed, but I still can't install any extension. The proxy is correctly configured in both gnome and firefox (via a dynamic configuration file).

.xsession-errors is empty, so are the LookingGlass tabs. In Firebug, I can track the javascript code execution until a call to API.installExtension(uuid, ""); (file common.js, line 51). At this point I cannot step into the function. Then I did not find anything really weird.

A colleague says it is a proxy problem, at least it is not a plugin problem.
Comment 4 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2012-09-22 00:24:28 UTC 
Make sure you have disabled click-to-play.
Comment 5 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2012-09-26 06:23:34 UTC 
What does window.SweetTooth.apiVersion give, after you've loaded a page on the site?
Comment 6 Xavier Pucel 2012-09-27 12:04:48 UTC 
Just checking (I have a non english interface), is click to play the chromium feature under Wrench/Preferences/"Confidentiality"/"Content parameters"/Plug-ins/"click to play" ? I reproduced the problem with the default "Execute automatically" option selected.

window.SweetTooth.apiVersion gives 3, both under Firefox and Chromium.

I also used D-Feet and invoked the InstallRemoteExtension(String uuid, String version) method with the parameters I tracked in firebug (namely "removeaccesibility@lomegor", ""), and a few days ago I would get an error (can't remember the message, sorry), but today I just get an instantaneous "This method did not return anything". It doesn't look like it's even trying to connect to the website to get an extension. So I guess the problem is not in the website of the browser.

Still, regarding the website, it would be nice to have a good-old-shell way to install extensions in case the nice-and-easy way fails. For example, links to download the extension manually and extract it in .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions would be enough.
Comment 7 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-09-24 10:26:56 UTC 
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