Ubuntu – How to install gnome extensions through firefox using Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04.1

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After fresh install of Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04.1, I was unable to install gnome extensions through the https://extensions.gnome.org/ website. The website would given an error that it could not detect that gnome was installed on my system. I am using the gnome shell package "gnome-shell 3.10.4-0ubuntu5.2 amd64". How do I get the website to recognize gnome on my system so that I can install extensions from gnome.org?

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In firefox's menu: Add-ons > Plugins and select Always activate for the Gnome Shell Integration plugin.

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You are almost there. After:

copying the folder in the ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/
just restart Gnome Shell: Alt+F2 -> R -> Enter

and the extension should appear in the gnome-tweaks tool (restart that one as well).

Ubuntu – Cannot install gnome shell extensions

The reason you are not seeing extensions available is that they are for Gnome Shell 3.6 most likely. This was an issue I had when I was running Gnome Shell 3.2 and they moved to the 3.4 version.

The best suggestion is to update Gnome Shell with the Gnome 3 PPA

In terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

After the upgrade try going to the extension site. You should be all set.

Edit: This will get you to the latest version of Gnome Shell which right now should be 3.6 if I am correct.

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