GNOME Shell extensions and Firefox 52

[Jeremy Bicha]

Earlier this week, Firefox 52 was pushed as a security and feature
update to all supported Ubuntu releases.

GNOME Shell includes a NPAPI plugin which enables users to manage
their GNOME Shell extensions at https://extensions.gnome.org/ . But
Firefox 52 drops support for NPAPI plugins.

https://extensions.gnome.org also supports a 2-part solution: the
chrome-gnome-shell package and a related browser addon. This solution
works with Firefox, Google Chrome, Chromium and Opera.

In the next few days, a ubuntu-gnome-desktop update will be pushed to
Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS and 16.10 to automatically install
chrome-gnome-shell.

The next time you visit https:/extensions.gnome.org/ you will be
prompted to install the required browser addon.

On behalf of the Ubuntu GNOME team,
Jeremy Bicha