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

[Niels Elgaard Larsen]

På Mon, 6 Feb 2017 21:09:16 +0100
Michael Franzl <office at michaelfranzl.com> skrev:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 11:27:55 +0100 Simon Ruderich <simon at ruderich.org>
     CHROMIUM_FLAGS='--enable-remote-extensions' chromium  
> 
> I put this into ~/.profile:
> 
>     CHROMIUM_FLAGS='--enable-remote-extensions'
> 
> Confirmed working as a workaround.

Yeah, I now have.
 CHROMIUM_FLAGS='--enable-remote-extensions --disable-print-preview'
 
> I understand the security aspect, 

Me too. Great if we can avoid the Google store. But then we need
another source/repositry of essential extensions. Debian packages, a
local directory, github, or something else.

> but this setting really should be
> added as a package configuration option, and the user explicitly
> queried IMO.
> 
> Michael
>