Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by eklavya on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:57AM (#15338655)

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.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by AndrewCHM on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:09AM (#15338762)

fwiw there is nothing that web extensions lack that would prevent that from working

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

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by Manishearth on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:13PM (#15341199)

The 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)

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by eklavya on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:10PM (#15340584)

Issue thread: https://github.com/jfitzell/mozilla-keychain/issues/88

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by Vinnl on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:14AM (#15338802)

Or to port an existing Chrome extension, as they work similarly now.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by mkj on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:25AM (#15338887)

Something 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.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by eklavya on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:08PM (#15340565)

Yeah, but asking Mozilla to include that maybe too much? I don’t know.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by ReverseCold on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:02AM (#15338707)

You could always export from keychain to another password manager and use that.

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