Since the release of Firefox 52 NPAPI plugins are no longer supported, meaning that the GNOME Extensions plugin which used to allow users to upgrade, install and manage their GNOME extensions through the main website (https://extensions.gnome.org/) no longer works.

Thus it has been changed so that users wanting to use the site properly have to install a Firefox add-on as well as a native host connector application. This application happens to currently be in the AUR and it is under the package name of chrome-gnome-shell-git there. This application will now be necessary to any GNOME user who wishes to upgrade existing extensions or to install new ones. Probably quite a lot of GNOME users that is. So it would be very useful if chrome-gnome-shell-git could become officially supported and at at least not only reside in the AUR which is a repository which I don't really trust and I don't really want to have to install anything from their to make my GNOME installation work properly.

This is the GNOME Wiki page which talks about this application: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShellIntegrationForChrome/Installation And as soon as the GNOME website fixes the issue with their homepage not displaying the notice properly any more, information on this will also be displayed there.

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I posted about this in the forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=224518 And it was suggested to me that I try to file a bug report on the issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1699975#p1699975 Although I know that one is not meant to file such requests here, I thought it worth a try and so did they: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1699980#p1699980

If this is still however not the place to post about this, then please point me in the right direction as not having this package is rather a nuisance to me especially as I've just done a fresh install and can't get any of my normal extensions I so love.