Package: chromium Version: 57.0.2987.98-1 Severity: important With the removal of extension support there is a NEWS.Debian entry recommending that either a command line option or an environment variable is set to reenable them if users rely on them. Unfortunately there is no information provided on how to actually accomplish either of these things and no visible facility to do them exists for this in GNOME 3 which is a pretty standard desktop for Debian. This results in a very poor user experience, more technical users will probably figure this out but less technical users who wish to use extensions will struggle to understand what they're being asked to do (or why). It's entirely likely that some will never see the NEWS.Debian entry in the first place.
We should do a much better job of explaining this change to users. It really should be something directly controllable through the browser UI, or a "with extensions" version of Chromium could be provided in the system menus. Documenting some "create a file here" workaround would probably work as well though it is a bit less discoverable. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages chromium depends on: ii libasound2 1.1.3-5 ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1 ii libavcodec57 7:3.2.4-1 ii libavformat57 7:3.2.4-1 ii libavutil55 7:3.2.4-1 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1 ii libcups2 2.2.1-8 ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.16-1 ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-3 ii libexpat1 2.2.0-2 ii libflac8 1.3.2-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7+b1 ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3+b2 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-11 it libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-2 ii libharfbuzz0b 1.4.2-1 ii libicu57 57.1-5 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.1-2 ii libminizip1 1.1-8+b1 ii libnspr4 2:4.12-6 ii libnss3 2:3.26.2-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.4-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.4-1 ii libpng16-16 1.6.28-1 ii libpulse0 10.0-1 ii libre2-3 20170101+dfsg-1 ii libsnappy1v5 1.1.4-1 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-11 ii libvpx4 1.6.1-3 ii libwebp6 0.5.2-1 ii libwebpdemux2 0.5.2-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxcb1 1.12-1 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2 ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1+b4 ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1 ii libxi6 2:1.7.9-1 ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1 ii libxslt1.1 1.1.29-2.1 ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1 ii libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1 ii x11-utils 7.7+3+b1 ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 Versions of packages chromium recommends: ii fonts-liberation 1:1.07.4-2 Versions of packages chromium suggests: pn chromium-driver <none> pn chromium-l10n <none> pn chromium-shell <none> pn chromium-widevine <none> -- no debconf information