Just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, which seems to also make a full reinstall of Chromium (as all my plugins were removed).
Now, trying to access https://extensions.gnome.org/ to enable Gnome Shell extensions, but the message:
We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system, so some parts of the interface may be disabled. See our troubleshooting entry for more information.
keeps appearing. There is nothing in my chrome://plugins page, but the site still seems to be whitelisted in my "click to play" settings. Has anyone found out how to force Chrome to get this plugin?
Best Answer
Chrome and Chromium dropped support for the NPAPI plugins (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) in favor of PPAPI (Pepper Plugin Application Programming Interface) so all plugins that use NPAPI (like GNOME Extension plugin) are just not supported.
The only alternative is using another browser that allows them (like Firefox) or asking the developers to move to PPAPI (unlikely).
NOTE: This is the blog post from the Chromium blog mentioning this, titled: Saying Goodbye to Our Old Friend NPAPI.