gnome-shell-extension-mpris-indicator-button VS gnome-unstable

Mpris Indicator Button is pretty cool too, but seems to lack a hot key to display it.

I also use the mpris indicator extension myself and that particular dev uses Fedora (or sometimes Ubuntu), and they've said in the past they can't update the extension until Gnome 43 hits, so since Fedora is still delayed to mid-November, that extension won't be officially updated just yet. But if you check their GitHub they have a "crude" master update for Gnome 43 you can use if you really want to, but just know it's not release ready yet.

Extensions: Blur my Shell, Tray icons Reloaded, Clipboard indicator, GSconnect, MPRIS Indicator Button, Night Theme Switcher, Color Picker

There are at least two extensions which do that (for Gnome 40): MPRIS Indicator Button and Media Controls.

Since Waterfox is based on Firefox and the MPRIS implementation of the latter seems optimal I suppose something is "missing"(?) in Waterfox sourcecode, I use the "MPRIS Indicator Button" GNOME shell extension and it's always worked flawlessly with Firefox but it never did with Waterfox .

You can try with unstable gnome but since it is intended to use with Arch you may be cautious since it can lead to problems.

You can add to your mirrorlist the FCGU mirror and install unofficially the Gnome 43

I just installed Gnome 43 on arch using the FCGU repository and I'm very surprised on how snappy and fast the system feels. Normally the overview has some slowdowns and low fps, on fedora is even worse (I blame the energy profile thingy) but with 43 everything flies and runs very fast! I'll live on gnome for a few weeks at least, but I thing I'll keep this instalation for a while

Until then, you can try the unstable fcgu repo.

If you want it that bad you can just use the unstable repo

If you’re keen to try it you can use this: https://gitlab.com/fabiscafe/gnome-unstable

Bored? why wait?

That depends on the time of the year. I'm the maintainer of the GNOME-Unstable repo FGCU. So normally I spend no time at all to the repo… maybe a few minutes a week, except when GNOME does alpha, beta and early stable releases. Where this can end up with around 4, 5h some day.

what's the difference between this and the fcgu repo?