GNOME Shell integration for Chrome version 9

Changes

• Shell extensions website is now opened on GNOME icon click.
• Show useful error message in Firefox instead of "Attempt to postMessage on disconnected port" in case native connector is not installed.
• Improved error handling when GNOME Shell is not installed or not running.
• In case native connector not found show warning instead of error.
• Python-requests made optional dependency for native connector. In case it is missed update check will not work.
• Implemented synchronization queue that will lower events overhead.
• Fixed synchronization issue that may disable all Shell extensions.
• Fixed compatibility issue with Firefox 54+.
• Fixed crash in native connector on older distros like Ubuntu Trusty.
• Fixed formating of error message in options page.
• Fixed gsettings GNOME Shell schema lookup in native connector.
• Removed deprecated and compatibility code. Firefox 52 is minimal supported version now.

Translations

• Czech (Marek Černocký)
• Danish (Alan Mortensen)
• Dutch (Hannie Dumoleyn)
• French (Alexandre Franke)
• Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
• Indonesian (Andika Triwidada, Kukuh Syafaat)
• Italian (Gianvito Cavasoli)
• Galician (Fran Dieguez)
• German (Florian Heiser, Mario Blättermann)
• Korean (Seong-ho Cho)
• Polish (Piotr Drąg)
• Portuguese (Brazil) (Rafael Fontenelle)

• Scottish Gaelic (GunChleoc)

• Swedish (Anders Jonsson)

Known issues

• Native host connector is not working in Google Chrome and Opera when installed via Debian Stretch or Sid repositories. To know "why?" look here, here and here. For a workaround look here.

• Web extension is broken on FreeBSD because of bug 212925.