GNOME Extensions Not Working

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Hey everyone,

So, I am really new to Clear Linux and am trying it out on my Intel NUC to try to get optimized speed. I have to say I really love it even though I’m not the biggest GNOME 3 fan, this distro has really made me appreciate GNOME 3 more and is faster than anything else I previously had on this machine.

With that being said, I’m having a hard time getting the GNOME extensions website to work. I have my browser configured and downloaded the bundle that contained chrome-gnome-shell, however, whenever I go to the extension website, it still gives me this message at the top:

Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not detected. Refer documentation for instructions about installing connector.

I have tried rebooting, updating, etc. and nothing seems to get it to work. Is there a way that I can enable to chrome-gnome-shell package or does anyone have a clue what is going on?

Thanks in advance!

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Check git, a solution was posted there in the issues section.

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Any progress on this I want to be able to use extensions. And no there was no solution on github, bulding from source do not work either just get errors.

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GNOME Extensions

GNOME Extensions plugin from the Chrome app market

and …

Extensions Connector

Based on:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShellIntegrationForChrome/Installation

sudo swupd bundle-add jq

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/chrome-gnome-shell.git

cd chrome*

mkdir build

cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DBUILD_EXTENSION=OFF ../

sudo make install
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Can confirm that it works for Chrome-based browsers (I tested it with Brave). Doesn’t work in Firefox though.

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