No such native application org.gnome.chrome_gnome_shell

[nd-]

Hi,
I'm on Fedora 39 / Gnome 45.4, Firefox 122.0.1 / Extension v 11.1

I have this error message on https://extensions.gnome.org/local/

No such native application org.gnome.chrome_gnome_shell

I have read Pliavi/arch-tweaks-and-fixes#12

gnome-browser-connector is already installed, I tried reinstall, not better.

I know it used to work, but since a few weeks and an update (of Fedora ? Gnome ? Firefox ?) it fails.

What could I check?

[nd-]

I just tried in Chromium, same error...

[nE0sIghT]

Hi.
What is the output of pacman -Ql gnome-browser-connector?

[nd-]

Thx but I'm on fedora, as i said, i have no pacman :)
what's the equivalent with dnf ?

[nE0sIghT]

dnf repoquery -l gnome-browser-connector

[nd-]

/etc/chromium
/etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts
/etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts/org.gnome.browser_connector.json
/etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts/org.gnome.chrome_gnome_shell.json
/etc/opt/chrome
/etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts
/etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/org.gnome.browser_connector.json
/etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/org.gnome.chrome_gnome_shell.json
/usr/bin/gnome-browser-connector
/usr/bin/gnome-browser-connector-host
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-312.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-312.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/application.cpython-312.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/application.cpython-312.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/base.cpython-312.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/base.cpython-312.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/connector.cpython-312.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/connector.cpython-312.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/constants.cpython-312.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/constants.cpython-312.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/helpers.cpython-312.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/helpers.cpython-312.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/logs.cpython-312.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/logs.cpython-312.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/main.cpython-312.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/main.cpython-312.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/service.cpython-312.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/service.cpython-312.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/version.cpython-312.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/__pycache__/version.cpython-312.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/application.py
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/base.py
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/connector.py
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/constants.py
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/helpers.py
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/logs.py
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/main.py
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/service.py
/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gnome_browser_connector/version.py
/usr/lib64/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts
/usr/lib64/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/org.gnome.browser_connector.json
/usr/lib64/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/org.gnome.chrome_gnome_shell.json
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.BrowserConnector.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.BrowserConnector.service
/usr/share/doc/gnome-browser-connector
/usr/share/doc/gnome-browser-connector/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-browser-connector/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/org.gnome.BrowserConnector.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/org.gnome.BrowserConnector.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.gnome.BrowserConnector.png
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-browser-connector
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-browser-connector/LICENSE

[nE0sIghT]

Do you use Flatpak'ed or Snap'ed browser?

[nd-]

Chromium is installed via Flathub, yes, and Firefox is installed directly via Mozilla binaries, because I need it to be always up to date.

[nE0sIghT]

For Flatpak look eg [1].

As for Mozilla - official binaries expect manifest files in the /usr/lib/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts, but Fedora installs them to /usr/lib64/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts which should be suitable for Fedora's Firefox builds, but not for official builds (look eg [2])

So:

• don't use flatpak
• use Fedora's packages
• for official Firefox binaries copy/link /usr/lib64/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts to /usr/lib/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741074
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318461

[nd-]

I made a symlink of the native-messaging-hosts directory as you say and it works now.
Many thx for your help! 👍