[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#852398: chromium: option --enable-remote-extensions does work: extensions cannot be enabled nor be installed

[Michael Franzl]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 11:27:55 +0100 Simon Ruderich <simon at ruderich.org> wrote:
> Setting the option in a environment variables seems to work as
> workaround for me:
> 
>     CHROMIUM_FLAGS='--enable-remote-extensions' chromium

I put this into ~/.profile:

    CHROMIUM_FLAGS='--enable-remote-extensions'

Confirmed working as a workaround.

I understand the security aspect, but this setting really should be
added as a package configuration option, and the user explicitly queried
IMO.

Michael