Ubuntu – GNOME shell extension doesn’t work with snap version of web-browser

command linefirefoxgnome-shellgnome-shell-extensionsnap

Got an error from Firefox saying :

Although the GNOME Shell integration extension is active, the native host connector is not recognized. Please consult the installation manual.

Which is an error that seems to never happen, I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 (Dual Boot Windows 10), and yes GNOME shell is installed via

sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shell

I'm using Firefox v64.0.2 (64 bits) snap.

Could someone help?

You don't need to install extensions from extensions.gnome.org as they are also available in 'Ubuntu Software' app.

Launch Ubuntu Software, click add-ons, click extensions tab. Here you are able to install extensions.

You need to install chrome-gnome-shell package so that your browser can detect your running GNOME Shell version. To install it run

sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell

Note: Installing GNOME Shell extensions doesn't work with the snap versions of the browser applications. Also since the 19.10 release, Ubuntu offers only the snap version of Chromium, the apt version of Chromium is not available in the standard repos.

You have to install native connector

sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shell