AdBlock doesn't work anymore

[Julien Olivier]

Using Epiphany with the webkit2 backend in Raring (with the staging PPA), AdBlock doesn't work even if I uncheck "allow ads". According to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699648, there should be a libephywebextension.so in /usr/lib/epiphany/3.8/web-extensions/, but I don't even have a /usr/lib/epiphany folder. Maybe a packaging issue?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: epiphany-browser-webkit2 3.7.91-1ubuntu1~raring1 [origin: LP-PPA-gnome3-team-gnome3]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-20.31-generic 3.8.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-20-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 15 10:06:05 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-15 (972 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: epiphany-browser
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2011-04-01 (775 days ago)

[Dhruv (meetsangvikar)]

Have you true insalling the extensions using the following-

sudo apt-get install epiphany-extensions

Then maybe install or reload the extension you want.

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

Dhruv: epiphany doesn't use extensions anymore. Adblock is now supposed to be directly integrated into the browser.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/epiphany/commit/?id=253ce5aa8e437687f329d3d51469fdabda3ee8d7

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

And, by the way, the epiphany-extensions package is now useless and totally empty.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Julien, the Epiphany developers have dropped support for extensions.

Adblock though should be bundled with Epiphany 3.8. This will be fixed in the next release from Debian and somebody will get around to backporting it to the GNOME3 PPA too.

[Bruce Pieterse (octoquad)]

Raring is now EOL. Works fine in 14.04 and 15.04. Marking as fixed.