Can't install GNOME extensions on Ubuntu 18.10 using Firefox
I wanted to install GSConnect to transfer a file from my phone to my laptop. So I installed
sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell
Then I installed the Firefox addon from the GNOME extensions website. However, when I click on the switch to enable the extension it prompts me to install the extension but the extension does not install and when I refresh the page the slider is back to off.
I reset my configs with:
dconf reset -f /
Debugging the Firefox addon tells me this:
Unchecked lastError value: Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
I also tried to install the extension manually but it didn't work either.
It's not just this gsconnect, I can't enable/disable other extensions either. I have the same issue in chrome.
firefox gnome-shell 18.10 gnome-shell-extension
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I wanted to install GSConnect to transfer a file from my phone to my laptop. So I installed
sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell
Then I installed the Firefox addon from the GNOME extensions website. However, when I click on the switch to enable the extension it prompts me to install the extension but the extension does not install and when I refresh the page the slider is back to off.
I reset my configs with:
dconf reset -f /
Debugging the Firefox addon tells me this:
Unchecked lastError value: Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
I also tried to install the extension manually but it didn't work either.
It's not just this gsconnect, I can't enable/disable other extensions either. I have the same issue in chrome.
firefox gnome-shell 18.10 gnome-shell-extension
edited Mar 18 at 20:32
pomsky
33.1k11103135
asked Mar 18 at 19:41
brent_rbbrent_rb
61
Is this happening only with this specific extension? Or all extensions? What happens if you use the Software application instead (refer to this)?
– pomsky
Mar 18 at 20:33
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I wanted to install GSConnect to transfer a file from my phone to my laptop. So I installed
sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell
Then I installed the Firefox addon from the GNOME extensions website. However, when I click on the switch to enable the extension it prompts me to install the extension but the extension does not install and when I refresh the page the slider is back to off.
I reset my configs with:
dconf reset -f /
Debugging the Firefox addon tells me this:
Unchecked lastError value: Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
I also tried to install the extension manually but it didn't work either.
It's not just this gsconnect, I can't enable/disable other extensions either. I have the same issue in chrome.
firefox gnome-shell 18.10 gnome-shell-extension
edited Mar 18 at 20:32
pomsky
33.1k11103135
asked Mar 18 at 19:41
brent_rbbrent_rb
61
I wanted to install GSConnect to transfer a file from my phone to my laptop. So I installed
sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell
Then I installed the Firefox addon from the GNOME extensions website. However, when I click on the switch to enable the extension it prompts me to install the extension but the extension does not install and when I refresh the page the slider is back to off.
I reset my configs with:
dconf reset -f /
Debugging the Firefox addon tells me this:
Unchecked lastError value: Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
I also tried to install the extension manually but it didn't work either.
It's not just this gsconnect, I can't enable/disable other extensions either. I have the same issue in chrome.
firefox gnome-shell 18.10 gnome-shell-extension
firefox gnome-shell 18.10 gnome-shell-extension
edited Mar 18 at 20:32
pomsky
33.1k11103135
asked Mar 18 at 19:41
brent_rbbrent_rb
61
edited Mar 18 at 20:32
pomsky
33.1k11103135
asked Mar 18 at 19:41
brent_rbbrent_rb
61
edited Mar 18 at 20:32
pomsky
33.1k11103135
edited Mar 18 at 20:32
pomsky
33.1k11103135
edited Mar 18 at 20:32
pomsky
33.1k11103135
33.1k11103135
asked Mar 18 at 19:41
brent_rbbrent_rb
61
asked Mar 18 at 19:41
brent_rbbrent_rb
61
asked Mar 18 at 19:41
brent_rbbrent_rb
61
61
Is this happening only with this specific extension? Or all extensions? What happens if you use the Software application instead (refer to this)?
– pomsky
Mar 18 at 20:33
add a comment |
Is this happening only with this specific extension? Or all extensions? What happens if you use the Software application instead (refer to this)?
– pomsky
Mar 18 at 20:33
Is this happening only with this specific extension? Or all extensions? What happens if you use the Software application instead (refer to this)?
– pomsky
Mar 18 at 20:33
Is this happening only with this specific extension? Or all extensions? What happens if you use the Software application instead (refer to this)?
– pomsky
Mar 18 at 20:33
add a comment |
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TL;DR: After changing file ownership to my current user for ~/.local (recursively) it was fixed. You might also have to reset gnome-settings using dconf reset -f /org/gnome/
Thanks to the link provided by @pomsky I learned that you could install extensions from the software center on Ubuntu. When I tried to do this I got an error. It was something along the lines of "shell.extractExtensionError".
The first suggestion to this problem suggested me to reset gnome settings with dconf reset -f /org/gnome/. After rebooting the issue was still present.
After some digging I learned that you could get more information about what was going wrong by running the command sudo journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell
There were a lot of errors related to opening files, so I ran sudo chown -R $USER ~/.local and this fixed the problem.
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TL;DR: After changing file ownership to my current user for ~/.local (recursively) it was fixed. You might also have to reset gnome-settings using dconf reset -f /org/gnome/
Thanks to the link provided by @pomsky I learned that you could install extensions from the software center on Ubuntu. When I tried to do this I got an error. It was something along the lines of "shell.extractExtensionError".
The first suggestion to this problem suggested me to reset gnome settings with dconf reset -f /org/gnome/. After rebooting the issue was still present.
After some digging I learned that you could get more information about what was going wrong by running the command sudo journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell
There were a lot of errors related to opening files, so I ran sudo chown -R $USER ~/.local and this fixed the problem.
answered Mar 19 at 1:27
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add a comment |
TL;DR: After changing file ownership to my current user for ~/.local (recursively) it was fixed. You might also have to reset gnome-settings using dconf reset -f /org/gnome/
Thanks to the link provided by @pomsky I learned that you could install extensions from the software center on Ubuntu. When I tried to do this I got an error. It was something along the lines of "shell.extractExtensionError".
The first suggestion to this problem suggested me to reset gnome settings with dconf reset -f /org/gnome/. After rebooting the issue was still present.
After some digging I learned that you could get more information about what was going wrong by running the command sudo journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell
There were a lot of errors related to opening files, so I ran sudo chown -R $USER ~/.local and this fixed the problem.
answered Mar 19 at 1:27
brent_rbbrent_rb
61
add a comment |
TL;DR: After changing file ownership to my current user for ~/.local (recursively) it was fixed. You might also have to reset gnome-settings using dconf reset -f /org/gnome/
Thanks to the link provided by @pomsky I learned that you could install extensions from the software center on Ubuntu. When I tried to do this I got an error. It was something along the lines of "shell.extractExtensionError".
The first suggestion to this problem suggested me to reset gnome settings with dconf reset -f /org/gnome/. After rebooting the issue was still present.
After some digging I learned that you could get more information about what was going wrong by running the command sudo journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell
There were a lot of errors related to opening files, so I ran sudo chown -R $USER ~/.local and this fixed the problem.
answered Mar 19 at 1:27
brent_rbbrent_rb
61
TL;DR: After changing file ownership to my current user for ~/.local (recursively) it was fixed. You might also have to reset gnome-settings using dconf reset -f /org/gnome/
Thanks to the link provided by @pomsky I learned that you could install extensions from the software center on Ubuntu. When I tried to do this I got an error. It was something along the lines of "shell.extractExtensionError".
The first suggestion to this problem suggested me to reset gnome settings with dconf reset -f /org/gnome/. After rebooting the issue was still present.
After some digging I learned that you could get more information about what was going wrong by running the command sudo journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell
There were a lot of errors related to opening files, so I ran sudo chown -R $USER ~/.local and this fixed the problem.
answered Mar 19 at 1:27
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