After upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04, my gnome search often stopped working. After Googling the issue, I found that this may be caused by a bad extension.
I then inspected the extensions available. Instead of disabling all of them, I decided to first disable the ones I could do without. I identified these three:
- snapd-prompting@canonical.com
- snapd-search-provider@canonical.com
- web-search-provider@ubuntu.com
To disable an extension, use the following command like below:
gnome-extensions disable snapd-prompting@canonical.com
I has been a while since I disabled them, and the GNOME problem has not happened again. I guess I found my culprits.
