Bug#849348: chrome-gnome-shell: Install Firefox extension

Jeremy Bicha jbicha at ubuntu.com
Sun Dec 25 22:44:56 UTC 2016


Package: chrome-gnome-shell
Version: 7.2-2
Severity: wishlist

Take a look here:
https://blogs.gnome.org/ne0sight/2016/12/25/how-to-install-gnome-shell-extensions-with-firefox-52/

Firefox 52 is scheduled for release March 7 and is also an ESR release
so it will impact Debian soon.

Maybe we should have gnome-shell depend on chrome-gnome-shell. (I
still don't understand the circular dependency issue, but in that case
maybe chrome-gnome-shell should not depend on gnome-shell but only
Recommend or Enhance it). And then release chrome-gnome-shell 8 and
the gnome-shell dependency change to jessie.

Anyway, the bug I intended to report here is that I think it would be
nice if the chrome-gnome-shell package installed at least the Firefox
browser extension so that users don't have to manually visit
https://addons.mozilla.org/ to get about the same behavior as before
Firefox 52.

There's a Firefox requirement for extensions to be signed but Debian
overrides this for extensions in system directories.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha



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