Howto enable Gnome Shell Extensions in opensuse 13.2 with Firefox

[fosdex]

If you try to install Gnome shell extensions in opensuse 13.2 you will get the following warning on the GNOME extensions website:

"We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system, so some parts of the interface may be disabled. See out troubleshooting entry for more information."

This is because the Gnome Shell Integration plugin for Firefox is needed to use the Gnome extensions website. The plugin is installed by default, however, Mozilla now has a policy of blocking all plugins, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins/Firefox_Whitelist. To fix this problem simply click on the "Open menu" button in the upper right corner of the Firefox screen then click the "Add-ons" icon to go to the Mozilla addons website. At the Mozilla addons website type "whitelist" in the search box and search. From the resulting list select and install "Click-to-Play Manager 1.3.1". This Mozilla addon will whitelist the Gnome Shell Integrarion plugin by default; if it does not, just click the "Preferences" button on the "Click-to-Play Manager" and add the Gnome shell extensions website, https://extensions.gnome.org/, to the whitelist. Gnome shell extensions can now be installed.

The opensuse development team did a great job of leaving this nugget in 13.2. You guys should buy yourself a beer...then fix the problem - you left the Gnome Shell Integration plugin blacklisted by default. 13.2 should have installed with the Gnome shell extensions whitelisted by default. Great job NOT!

[malcolmlewis]

If you try to install Gnome shell extensions in opensuse 13.2 you will get the following warning on the GNOME extensions website:

"We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system, so some parts of the interface may be disabled. See out troubleshooting entry for more information."

This is because the Gnome Shell Integration plugin for Firefox is needed to use the Gnome extensions website. The plugin is installed by default, however, Mozilla now has a policy of blocking all plugins, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins/Firefox_Whitelist. To fix this problem simply click on the "Open menu" button in the upper right corner of the Firefox screen then click the "Add-ons" icon to go to the Mozilla addons website. At the Mozilla addons website type "whitelist" in the search box and search. From the resulting list select and install "Click-to-Play Manager 1.3.1". This Mozilla addon will whitelist the Gnome Shell Integrarion plugin by default; if it does not, just click the "Preferences" button on the "Click-to-Play Manager" and add the Gnome shell extensions website, https://extensions.gnome.org/, to the whitelist. Gnome shell extensions can now be installed.

The opensuse development team did a great job of leaving this nugget in 13.2. You guys should buy yourself a beer...then fix the problem - you left the Gnome Shell Integration plugin blacklisted by default. 13.2 should have installed with the Gnome shell extensions whitelisted by default. Great job NOT!

Hi
I have never had to add anything, yes there is a popup sent via firefox (13.1,13.2, SLED 12) to allow, press that, then a popup to never forget and it's done.

[fosdex]

Hi
I have never had to add anything, yes there is a popup sent via firefox (13.1,13.2, SLED 12) to allow, press that, then a popup to never forget and it's done.

Hi Malcolm,

Firefox never sent the popup so the Gnome extensions site remained blacklisted. The solution was as I posted. This occurred on a fresh install of 13.2, i.e., I completely wiped 13.1 from the system before installing so as to avoid any "upgrade" problems (I really prefer my new set of problems to be unblemished by the old ones).

[malcolmlewis]

On Fri 07 Nov 2014 09:26:01 AM CST, fosdex wrote:


malcolmlewis;2673677 Wrote:
> Hi
> I have never had to add anything, yes there is a popup sent via
> firefox (13.1,13.2, SLED 12) to allow, press that, then a popup to
> never forget and it's done.

Hi Malcolm,

Firefox never sent the popup so the Gnome extensions site remained
blacklisted. The solution was as I posted. This occurred on a fresh
install of 13.2, i.e., I completely wiped 13.1 from the system before
installing so as to avoid any "upgrade" problems (I really prefer my new
set of problems to be unblemished by the old ones).

Hi
Hmmm, well it's a strange one, my SoP is to install adblock, set tls,
webrtc and peer media connections in about config, then re-add my book
marks and go the the extensions web site. Did a couple of fresh installs
of 13.2 from the dvd yesterday (playing with bcache), both times I had
the pop-up....

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[terjejh]

While my two stationary workstations have worked ok after 13.2 upgrade/fresh installation, I got this problem on my laptop some time during the 13.2 beta/RC releases. Even not 13.2 fresh installations after removing the Desktop in /home directory did help.

After I installed the Click-to-play Manager in FF, I also had to add "Gnome Shell Integration" in its settings, because only the IcedTea plugin was there by default. And now happily Gnome shell extenstions are possible to add again.