The only real difference between the Firefox and Epiphany experience is
that with Firefox I got no "ERROR" message on the site and the
extensions did actually seemingly update properly, but it turned them
all on and wouldn't allow me to disable them. It also messed the AO up
and made the extensions not function properly.
** Description changed:
- I am running Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 with GNOME 3.24, and through Chrome,
- Chromium and Firefox all works fine in terms of the GNOME Extensions
- site. However, if one is to use Epiphany then there is one hell of an
- issue with updating extensions. So if I went here
- https://extensions.gnome.org/local/ in Epiphany and tried to update an
- extension with little green up arrow, then for a few of them it might
- work, but sooner rather than later I would just get a big white on red
- "ERROR" message where the buttons would normally be. At which point, if
- I had tried to update extensions which were disabled at the time of me
- trying to update them, they would become enabled and be stuck on that
- mode until I restarted my machine.
+ I am running Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 with GNOME 3.24 and though in the paste
+ all worked fine with the NPAPI in Firefox, now if I try to update GNOME
+ extensions with it or Epiphany all hell breaks loose using the add-on
+ and native host connector method. So if I went here
+ https://extensions.gnome.org/local/ in Epiphany or Firefox and tried to
+ update an extension with little green up arrow, then for a few of them
+ it might work, but sooner rather than later I would just get a big white
+ on red "ERROR" message where the buttons would normally be. At which
+ point, if I had tried to update extensions which were disabled at the
+ time of me trying to update them, they would become enabled and be stuck
+ on that mode until I restarted my machine.
It also appears to break a lot of things with gnome-shell, though what
it does each time appears rather random. This issue was present in GNOME
3.22, but certainly got worse with everything in the AO breaking with
3.24.
If I try to disable or enable any of the affected extensions using the
gnome-tweak-tool then I am unable to move the slider and there is a
little "error loading extension" (gnome-tweak-tool_Extension_Errors.png)
next to each one, I am also unable to get the "Remove" button to work.
I have also attached some screenshots of the kinds of strange things
that occur when I do this. You will also notice the "Applications" and
"Places" (Applications_Places_Menus_Showing.png) menus being present,
those extensions are some of those that weren't on originally, but then
got jammed on when I tried to update them even though I never actually
tried to turn them on. If I then restart my system I can disable and
even remove them, but not until a full restart is performed. Not even
restarting gnome-shell seems to work.
I have also noticed that after I start seeing "ERROR" on the website
that I get the same or just the update arrow reappears a few seconds
after clicking it with all the other extensions and thus am unable to
update them. This is all rather annoying.
Note: Any strange big white boxes or black boxes in the screenshots are
just me hiding personal information etc.
+
+ Also, previously I thought this issue was only in Epiphany but the same,
+ maybe even work, issue now also happens in Firefox. Though I was not
+ able to test it in Chrome or Chromium.
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Attempting to update extensions through browser not using NPAPI plugin
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