This is a bit of a nuisance, after a fresh install of Ubuntu Gnome, I was not able to install extensions from extensions.gnome.org.
Firefox asked me if I’d like to install the extension but after a Firefox restart I still wasn’t able to install any plugins.
To be precise; this message was shown:
Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not detected. Refer documentation for instructions about installing connector.
The solution was to install the chrome-gnome-shell package;
sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shell
This fixes the message from both chrome and firefox.
Thx,it works!
Same problem for me on a fresh Ubuntu 17.10 installation. Thank you for the workaround!
You’re welcome! Good to hear it’s still relevant 🙂
thanks worked in ubuntu 17.10
Works in 18.04 after fresh install and update.
Already had this installed.
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
chrome-gnome-shell is already the newest version (9-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.3).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Uninstalled it. Installed it again. Still no gnome extensions. The extension is added to the three browsers I have. None can work the gnone extensions.
Hi K H,
That’s a shame, in the meanwhile I switched to Budgie Desktop because Gnome 3 kept giving me issues.. I’m sorry, but I’ve removed Gnome from my laptop so can’t test anymore.
had any luck with this?
both my Chromium & Firefox can’t find the native messaging host despite the same install/uninstall process you tried
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Same here
Reinstalling Firefox with apt solved the problem for me in Ubuntu 18.04.
Awesome! Thanks for the update 👍