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

[Ara Keary]

Package: chromium
Version: 55.0.2883.75-6
Severity: normal

Dear maintainers,

remote extensions are disabled now by default

I understand that official chrome extensions such as Adblock Plus (or similar
ones) and non-official extensions can be enabled and can be installed only if
the
  --enable-remote-extensions
command line option is used when launching chromium.

However, this behaviour is not observed: whether this command-line option is
used or not, no extension (official nor non-official) can be enabled nor can be
installed.

Besides, also irrespective of this option, annoying extensions such as
"Chromium PDF Viewer" cannot be disabled.

Is this the normal behaviour?

Browsing without Adblock Plus can be unsafe if one wants to keep one's mind
sound in the short term;)


Best,

Ara




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  libasound2           1.1.3-2
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.22.0-1
ii  libavcodec57         10:3.0-dmo4
ii  libavformat57        10:3.0-dmo4
ii  libavutil55          10:3.0-dmo4
ii  libc6                2.24-9
ii  libcairo2            1.14.8-1
ii  libcups2             2.2.1-6
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.10.14-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5       2.0.21-stable-2.1
ii  libexpat1            2.2.0-2
ii  libflac8             1.3.2-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.7
ii  libfreetype6         2.6.3-3+b1
ii  libgcc1              1:6.3.0-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.36.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.50.2-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.31-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b        1.2.7-1+b1
ii  libicu57             57.1-5
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.5.1-2
pn  libminizip1          <none>
ii  libnspr4             2:4.12-6
ii  libnss3              2:3.26.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.40.3-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.40.3-3
ii  libpng16-16          1.6.28-1
ii  libpulse0            10.0-1
ii  libre2-3             20170101+dfsg-1
ii  libsnappy1v5         1.1.3-3
ii  libstdc++6           6.3.0-4
ii  libvpx4              1.6.1-2
ii  libwebp6             0.5.2-1
ii  libwebpdemux2        0.5.2-1
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.4-2
ii  libx11-xcb1          2:1.6.4-2
ii  libxcb1              1.12-1
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.8-2
ii  libxml2              2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.5.1-1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.29-2
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.3-1
ii  x11-utils            7.7+3
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.1-1
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.8.dfsg-4

Versions of packages chromium recommends:
ii  fonts-liberation  1:1.07.4-2

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-driver    <none>
ii  chromium-l10n      55.0.2883.75-6
pn  chromium-shell     <none>
pn  chromium-widevine  <none>

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