GNOME web/epiphany: using plugins [SOLVED]

mounty1 · l33t Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 849 Location: Queensland

Hello, I'm giving GNOME 3.22 a spin and want to install some destop extensions. Apparently the way to do this is to navigate to http://extensions.gnome.org but tht page says that it can't detect GNOME on my system. The solution to that is to install the GNOME shell integration plugin in Epiphany. That's where I need help. On the preferences dialog, the enable plugins checkbox is ticked. Navigating to about:plugins in Epiphany gives a page showing just the single word Plugins, very faint but in large font.

So my question is: how does one install and activate this shell integration plugin into Epiphany?
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Michael Mounteney

Leio · Developer Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 494 Location: Estonia

Install gnome-shell with USE=nsplugin and it ought to work with epiphany for now.
To get this for chromium, vivaldi, future firefox that has nsplugin disabled for non-flash and many others, install chrome-google-shell and follow the post-install instructions (need an add-on in addition to the package in this case).
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mounty1 · l33t Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 849 Location: Queensland

Thanks Leio; that fixed it. USE=nsplugin.
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Michael Mounteney