Ubuntu
chromium-browser package

Can't use the extensions provided by the webext-* packages

Bug #1818549 reported by Paride Legovini
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
browserpass (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned
ublock-origin (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

chromium-browser seems to ignore the extensions installed using the webext-* packages, e.g.

webext-ublock-origin
webext-browserpass

The extensions simply do not show up anywhere in Chromium, while they work fine in Firefox. These webext packages are syncs from Debian, and on Debian systems they correctly show up both in Firefox and Chromium (installed using the 'chromium' Debian package).

I'm running an up-to-date disco, with chromium-browser 72.0.3626.96-0ubuntu1. I didn't try with any previous version, so I don't know if the problem is a regression.

Paride

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Confirmed, chromium doesn't list the extensions installed by those packages.
However if I go to chrome://extensions, I can click on the button to load an unpacked extension, and point the file picker to /usr/share/chromium/extensions/ublock-origin, and the extension is correctly loaded.

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Andreas Schildbach (schildbach) wrote :

There is a separate package chromium-ublock-origin. Maybe try that one for Chromium?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in browserpass (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ublock-origin (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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