Sebastian Wick
Sebastian Wick
@mathstuf Firefox uses dbus internally, there is no way to use it from JS.
Sorry, no news. libsecret in flatpak saves passwords locally and not to the global keyring now anyways so I don't see any value in this addon anymore at all.
Even if I would support libsecret the addon would only work in non-flatpak thunderbird so I won't do it. It can obviously be done but I won't be the one...
If someone can confirm that it works and with which versions, I can enable support for Seamonkey.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309807#c133 Known issue, however there doesn't seem to be any interest in providing an API.
Current status: not looking good. There are two parts to the addon: 1. Communication with the keyring, which is currently done by calling into libgnome-keyring.so using the ctypes module. [Native...
That's a good idea but also somewhat unpractical now. If we supported a new format we'd still have to be able to handle the old one or convert the old...
Do you have the same problem with the default password manager? The extension doesn't do any username checking when retrieving or storing passwords, it only stores what firefox gives us.
The default keyring is the the keyring marked as default by your system. Might be useful to display the name of the current default. "store passwords only for this session"...
Dbus allows to export different objects implementing the same interface, so we can expose one object per provider and an object for the default provider.