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I so wanted to use the new Firefox and switch from safari. I searched and was excited to learn there was an extension for integration with keychain on mac only
by eklavya 9y ago
I so wanted to use the new Firefox and switch from safari. I searched and was excited to learn there was an extension for integration with keychain on mac only to learn that it was no longer supported :(
I understand the push behind web extensions but I don't think there will ever be a keychain integration addon now.
- ReverseCold 9y agoYou could always export from keychain to another password manager and use that.
- AndrewCHM 9y agofwiw there is nothing that web extensions lack that would prevent that from working https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Native_messaging https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Na... exists to allow web extensions to talk with programs on the computer, its up to someone to write the extension and executable for that usecase
- Vinnl 9y agoOr to port an existing Chrome extension, as they work similarly now.
- eklavya 9y agoIssue thread: https://github.com/jfitzell/mozilla-keychain/issues/88 https://github.com/jfitzell/mozilla-keychain/issues/88
- Manishearth 9y agoThe OnePassword extension already does this fwiw. (The webextension might be in beta? When I installed it a month ago it was in "beta" and had to be installed directly from their site, idk if they've uploaded it to the store yet)
- mkj 9y agoSomething like Keychain support seems high-risk to leave to third party addons? In the back of my mind I wonder if they'll also follow the Chrome model of malware takeovers.
- eklavya 9y agoYeah, but asking Mozilla to include that maybe too much? I don’t know.