Firefox misses the GNOME native connector
Firefox reports the native host connector as missing even after the chrome-gnome-shell package is installed.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
8 public reports · first reported 21 March 2018 · last reported 26 June 2026
What's going wrong
Linux users running the GNOME Shell integration add-on in Firefox repeatedly see a message saying the native host connector is not detected, even when they believe the connector package is installed.
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