[sle-beta] SLED 15 RC2 - Unable to install gnome-shell extensions integration

[Frederic Crozat]

Le mardi 24 avril 2018 à 09:32 -0500, Malcolm a écrit :
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:21:28 +0200
> Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at suse.com> wrote:
> 
> > Le mardi 24 avril 2018 à 08:44 -0500, Malcolm a écrit :
> > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:26:29 -0500
> > > Malcolm <malcolmlewis at cableone.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi
> > > > If I go to https://extensions.gnome.org and try to install the
> > > > browser
> > > > extension it downloads, but is unable to install because it's
> > > > not
> > > > compatible with Firefox 52.7.2. The installed version of
> > > > chrome-gnome-shell is 10-1.3 on Leap 42.3 which also uses the
> > > > same
> > > > browser version is 9-1.1 and works fine.
> > > > 
> > > > This was working in RC1...
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > > Bump.... failing in RC3 Firefox 52.7.3 I'm guessing it's the
> > > missing
> > > gnome-shell-browser-plugin (part of gnome-shell). Is this missing
> > > on
> > > purpose, or needs a bug report?
> > 
> > We do not provide gnome-shell-browser-plugin on SLE15 because NPAPI
> > plugin are not available in the next ESR release of Firefox, which
> > will be released next month.
> > 
> > chrome-gnome-shell is used instead to do the same job.
> > 
> 
> Hi Frederic
> Hmm, so chrome-gnome-shell plugin is installed, yet still get the pop
> up at extensions.gnome.org after trying to install saying "GNOME
> shell
> integration could not be installed because it's not compatible with
> Firefox 52.7.3".
> 
> So I'm guessing it's just a waiting game for the newer ESR release in
> SLE 15?

Yes. We plan to ship a new Firefox release to beta testers as soon as
we have one which works reliably on all SLE supported platforms !


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Frederic Crozat
Enterprise Desktop Release Manager
SUSE