GNU bug report logs - #35709
ungoogled-chromium fails to install crx extensions

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From: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
To: Report new Guix bug <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: ungoogled-chromium fails to install crx extensions
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 10:16:57 +0200

Hi

$ guix describe
Generation 2	May 11 2019 18:46:50	(current)
  guix c087a90
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: c087a90e06d7b9451f802323e24deb1862a21e0f

installed ungoogled-chromium 74.0.3729.131-0.9e33022

downloaded a crx via https://crxextractor.com/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pawhash/adgekjfphhgngpdoklolpjenmgneobfg
(Apache 2 licensed)

When dropped into the "extensions"-tab I get an error:
"Package is invalid: CRX_HEADER_INVALID"

same with 
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm 
(gpl-3)

It does not matter whether I enable the "developer-mode"

These work fine on Inox (Chromium 67.0.3396.87 from AUR) on parabola
-- 
Cheers Swedebugia

Message #8 received at 35709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
Cc: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>, 35709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35709: ungoogled-chromium fails to install crx extensions
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 13:58:03 +0200

Hello,

swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net> skribis:

> installed ungoogled-chromium 74.0.3729.131-0.9e33022
>
> downloaded a crx via https://crxextractor.com/
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pawhash/adgekjfphhgngpdoklolpjenmgneobfg
> (Apache 2 licensed)
>
> When dropped into the "extensions"-tab I get an error:
> "Package is invalid: CRX_HEADER_INVALID"
>
> same with
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
> (gpl-3)

Marius, does that ring a bell?  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #11 received at 35709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Alex Griffin" <a <at> ajgrf.com>
To: 35709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
Subject: Re: Guix beyond 1.0: let’s have a roadmap!
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 22:54:50 +0000

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019, at 10:34 PM, swedebugia wrote:
> > *** TODO package important Icecat and Ungoogled-Chromium extensions. This is a pain point because IceCat steers users away from Firefox Add-ons and Ungoogled-Chromium completely disallows installing from Chrome Web Store.
> 
> Actually currently our Chrome does not support add-ons at all. See bug 
> #35709

I noticed I can use add-ons by installing or updating them with Debian's Chromium and then opening my profile with ungoogled-chromium from Guix. I'd also be surprised if this method of running unpacked extensions didn't work, although I haven't tried it yet: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/master/dist#chromium

-- 
Alex Griffin

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