Ungoogled-chromium: Drag-and-drop not working

[pirate1337]

https://www.neverendingchartrendering.org/

Hi, this site doesn't seem to work correctly in ungoogled chromium 79.0.3945.117 on Windows 10 when dragging the image onto the panel.
Tested it in firefox and it works fine.
Any fix?

EDIT: installing extensions by dragging the crx files into the extensions page also does not work.

[tangalbert919]

I can confirm this as an issue on ungoogled-chromium 79.0.3945.130 on Windows. Haven't tried this on Linux yet, though.

[Eloston]

On Linux, I've been having troubles dragging and dropping for a while now, such as files from a file manager. Maybe dragging and dropping is broken by a patch?

[cypherpunk1984]

Not working either on Linux Mint 19.3 Cinammon 64bit. I tried installing NeverDecaf's Chromium Webstore. Dragged the CRX file and dropped it on chrome://extensions/ (Ungoogled Chromium Version 79.0.3945.130) but nothing happens. The screen changes to "Drop to install", but you drop and nada.

[flesti]

Similar to #834 "[Windows] Extensions don't install via drag-and-drop bug"

Drag and Drop doesn't work for several versions back now. Either plain text, links, urls, images, files, etc, from windows explorer or other applications, rendering some functions in various sites unusable, like VirusTotal for example.

[flesti]

All drag 'n drop works fine in 80.0.3987.87 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Windows 7 SP1 x64 - WIndows 10 LTSC

[Eloston]

@flesti We haven't updated Windows support to version 80 yet. I don't know what browser you're using.

[flesti]

True. I just saw that you actually didn't.
But woolyss apparently thought you did
with a link to this.

It's strange because it does actually look like ungoogled chrome. I don't know the difference if there's any.

[DonQuixoteI]

Portable Linux 64-bit v.80.0.3987.106-1.1 has drag-and-drop issue in Bookmark Manager.
Previous (portable) 78.0.3904.108-2.1 does not that issue.
No problems in 80.0.3987.106-1 provided by Debian (unstable).

[xahldera]

Having issues with drag and drop installation of extensions in Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit, Ungoogled Chromium version 80.0.3987.132

[cypherpunk1984]

Ungoogled Chromium Version 80.0.3987.132

Linux Mint Tricia 19.3 (64-bit)

Drag and drop not working

[flesti]

and it's strange because in the macchome builds drag and drop works fine

Standard build of Eloston's ungoogled-chromium. All patches applied apart from "Safe Browser"

https://github.com/macchrome/winchrome/releases

[AyoungDukie]

Just to add some more context, I did a clean reinstall of the earliest version with installer executable (78.0.3904.70-1), and found some more verbose gui errors before adding the flag for chrome://flags/#extension-mime-request-handling

https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store/issues/8#issuecomment-60949477

[Gooberpatrol66]

extension-mime-request-handling used to work, but doesn't anymore. now it just downloads the .crx file. I can no longer update chromium-web-store.

80.0.3987.162

[perfect7gentleman]

confirm

[PF4Public]

extension-mime-request-handling used to work, but doesn't anymore. now it just downloads the .crx file. I can no longer update chromium-web-store.

Same for 80.0.3987.163

[Rohaq]

Similar issue in ungoogled-chromium 80.0.3987.1492, installed via Chocolatey.

Set the flag, dragged the CRX file to an extensions tag, and it just sits there spinning its wheels forever.

[seanking2919]

As of 80.0.3987.163, this issue apparently does not occur in Woolyss builds, which apparently do not use the Safe Browsing patches. We'll probably need to look at the patches related to Safe Browsing because they might be the source of the problem.

[woolyss]

Hello all,
Few days ago, I made a video to show that drag-and-drop works nicely on our ungoogled-chromium version:
https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store/issues/10#issuecomment-595535488

Thanks for all developers and mainly Eloston. Very good job!
It is an hard work to maintain an ungoogled version of Chromium. Respect!

[cypherpunk1984]

Linux versions aren't ungoogled though, I prefer staying with an ungoogled version like Eloston's.

[xnaas]

Per https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/988#issuecomment-611656303 I can't install any extensions at all.

I can't get any CRX files to install at all on:

Chromium 80.0.3987.149 (Developer Build) (64-bit)
Revision 5f4eb224680e5d7dca88504586e9fd951840cac6-refs/branch-heads/3987_137@{#16}
OS Windows 10 OS Version 1909 (Build 18363.752)
JavaScript V8 8.0.426.27
Flash (Disabled)
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36

Trying to install through drag and drop or any methods mentioned in the FAQ only results in this happening indefinitely:

Edit: I see there's a lot of previous issues regarding this. Never mind.

[Eloston]

For anyone reading this, @xnaas's particular issue is https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-windows/issues/23

EDIT: Workaround is to unpack CRX as a zip file (by renaming extension), then load the unpacked extension.

[linuxtopia]

For anyone reading this, @xnaas's particular issue is ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-windows#23

EDIT: Workaround is to unpack CRX as a zip file (by renaming extension), then load the unpacked extension.

how to be renaming?

[AyoungDukie]

Just by renaming the file in the file manager (ie .crx to .zip)

[linuxtopia]

Just by renaming the file in the file manager (ie .crx to .zip)

"Directory is not valid" alike an error appears when Ungoogled try to load unpack version of Web Store

[seanking2919]

Yeah, renaming from CRX to ZIP didn't work for me either.

[seanking2919]

On Debian/Ubuntu Linux builds, you can add downloaded extensions by opening them in the browser. You can also add extensions from CRX extractor. That's pretty much it. Even if I set the extension mime flag to always prompt for install, it doesn't auto-install downloaded extension files from elsewhere. Additionally, it doesn't do drag-and-drop.

Tested on Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia (w/ Cinnamon desktop; 64-bit)

[AyoungDukie]

@seanking2919 @linuxtopia Fair enough, I hadn't personally done that; I was able to get it to work by "unpacking" the CRX like Sean mentioned, then using the developer options add the unpacked extension (did this while booted into windows 10 1909)

[seanking2919]

@flesti How did you install version 80 official build?

[ghost]

On Debian/Ubuntu Linux builds, you can add downloaded extensions by opening them in the browser. You can also add extensions from CRX extractor. That's pretty much it. Even if I set the extension mime flag to always prompt for install, it doesn't auto-install downloaded extension files from elsewhere. Additionally, it doesn't do drag-and-drop.

Tested on Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia (w/ Cinnamon desktop; 64-bit)

Thank you @seanking2919 changing flag from default to always prompt for install and opening crx with ug-chromium from Dolphin solved it for me.
Arch Linux.

[flesti]

@flesti How did you install version 80 official build?

Turns out isn't official, it's builds from winchrome
suggested by woolyss identical to Eloston apart from the "Safe Browser" patch
https://github.com/macchrome/winchrome/releases/

sorry for the late reply

[Eloston]

Compiled Debian buster changes with this fix (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-debian/commit/102dfab77f1f44ae312949166f632a1fdba3bfce), and it seems to be working. I tested drag-and-drop with Chromium Web Store and uBlock Origin; both seem to install correctly.

How frustrating that this issue was caused by a silly mistake, but fortunate that it was easy to find and fix. Hopefully #845 can eliminate issues like these...

Closing as I think the issue should be fixed, but testing is appreciated. If the issue persists, I'll re-open.

[xnaas]

This is a little off-topic for this issue, but I notice the Windows binaries are pretty out of date. Does a community member need to step up and compile binaries? Do the current old binaries automatically update to the newest stuff?

[Eloston]

@xnaas

Does a community member need to step up and compile binaries?

Roughly, yes. More accurately, someone needs to update the Windows patches.

[FrankSalmick]

@Eloston is there anything to doing builds other than git pull and following the instructions in the windows repo's build instructions? I see in one of their pull requests it seems like they are actually making changes in addition to building it. I didn't realize updates were waiting for community support, so I'm going to start building my own versions now. If it's just building and not improving I'd be happy to push changes up when I compile a new version.

[Eloston]

@FrankSalmick Every platform has platform-specific patches that needs to be updated every time Chromium is updated. I'm not too involved in maintaining platform support.