1362981 - Request WebExtensions API equivalent to nsiLoginManager

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1344788

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, enhancement)

Description

[blk]

I use an extension - Keychain Services Integration - that makes heavy use of the nsiLoginManager API to store Firefox's passwords in the Mac OS X Keychain (the Keychain is the Mac OS X system password manager).

I'd like to request that WebExtensions equivalent of the API could be implemented, such that this extension could live on as a WebExtension.

Comment 1

[:garvan]

Please look also at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1324919

Is nsILoginManagerStorage also needed as webext API for keychain storage?

Comment 2

[blk]

> Is nsILoginManagerStorage also needed as webext API for keychain storage?

It definitely is needed, yes.

Looking over the extension, I *think* it works by creating a nsILoginManagerStorage instance (for Keychain interfacing), then supplying its own versions of all of nsiLoginManager's methods that will work with the new Storage instance.

Comment 3

[blk]

OK, so it looks like I'm not the only person to bring this up - see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344788 for another bug requesting implementation of a nsILoginManagerStorage equivalent.

Comment 5

[Sierk Bornemann]

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