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

Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs at debian.org
Wed Jan 4 15:29:47 UTC 2017


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Hello Jeremy,

On Sun, 2016-12-25 at 17:44 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> 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-extensi
> ons-with-firefox-52/
> 

Wow. Thanks for sharing.

> 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.
> 

Great. We'll package it soon, before the freeze.

> 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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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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