For some weeks now, I’ve been unable to install or update extensions anymore using Google Chrome due to the following message that appears at the top of the extensions page which translates:
“Your computer’s native connector does not support the following APIs: v6. You may need to upgrade the connector or install plugins for the missing APIs. Please refer to the documentation for instructions.”
Using Gnome Web I also get a different error message:
“A copy of GNOME has not been detected on this system, so some parts of the interface may not be available. See the troubleshooting guide for more information.”
Obviously we need more info.
What version of fedora?
What desktop? Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, or ?
Fully updated?
What version of chrome? and installed from where?
What extensions?
What extensions page?
Do you have the gnome-extensions-app installed?
I had & continue to have this problem with any browser installed from outside the Fedora ecosystem; for example, both Brave Nightly and Firefox Nightly throw this error. So, I just keep the default installed Firefox there for this sole purpose.
Many see similar issues with software installed from a 3rd party site. All that is needed to verify that is read posts on this forum. I believe Fedora tries to keep things as close to the upstream source as possible, but sometimes there are tweaks required.
Versioning is often slightly lagging with packages from the fedora repo, but things are tested and verified to be stable before release.
On firefox and chrome, I have the same error message, but I’m able to install extensions.
On firefox I only have bitwarden and u-block origin extensions.
Chrome was a clean install.
Firefox was fedora native, Chrome was the google repo.
