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It'd be ideal if browsers offered standard hooks into their password-filling mechanisms. Let the password managers volunteer "I know a password for this site!"
by kemayo 5y ago
It'd be ideal if browsers offered standard hooks into their password-filling mechanisms. Let the password managers volunteer "I know a password for this site!" and fill it through the browser's standard UI.
Basically, I want the browsers to implement something close to what Apple has for password management on iOS. Ideally go a bit further and expose hooks for creating/saving a new login, too.
Unless they already do this, and nobody has actually taken them up on using it?
- j1elo 5y agoThat's an amazing idea! Do you know if any browser vendor has this concept even in the radar? It would be very cool that password managers were able to do that: manage passwords, and not have to deal with each browser's idiosyncrasies which if you think about it, is just a distraction from their actual mission of being a password storage.
- kraftomatic 5y agoiPhone does this already. You can choose from different password managers (I use built inn and and old version of 1P). So works on safari, but also other apps that I assume use some standard password field.
- kemayo 5y agoI haven't heard any rumblings about it from browser vendors, unfortunately. Even Apple hasn't extended it to desktop-Safari, as far as I can tell.
- beefjerkins 5y agoNow that you mention it, that would a fantastic idea; create an extension that exposes some sort of API that the browser can tap into to load suggested credentials for the current domain.