Re: ublock extension for ungoogled-chromium

[Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 11:07 AM Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi Reza,
>
> Reza Housseini <reza.housseini@gmail.com> skriver:
>
> > Hello Guixers
> >
> > I installed ungoogled-chromium and ublock-origin-chromium and just
> assumed
> > it will work. But it seems that the extension does not get registered in
> > chromium. Does anybody know what I have to do to achieve this?
>
> It should definitively "just work", however there are caveats:
>
> * It relies on the $CHROMIUM_EXTENSION_DIRECTORY variable, which is
>   automatically configured by Guix when you install both packages; but
>   you may need to log out and in again for it to take effect.
> * If you have a previous ~/.config/chromium directory from the (googled)
>   Chromium laying around, there may be strange interactions.
>
> You can avoid both caveats by running:
>
>   guix shell {ungoogled,ublock-origin}-chromium -- \
>     chromium --user-data-dir=/tmp/chromium-profile
>
> Does the extension show up then?
>
> > Marius Bakke mentioned in his patch [1] that updating does not work, is
> > this the reason why?
>
> Updating has since been fixed.  :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Marius
>

Hi Marius

Logging in and out did the trick, should've known better.

So it should work updating the extension via guix?

Thanks,
Reza