1422323 - web extensions access to Firefox password manager

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1324919

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Patrick Schleizer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20171114221957

Steps to reproduce:

Use firefox 58.


Actual results:

"With the WebExtensions API, we are not able to tie in to the functionality of the build-in password manager in Firefox.

PassIFox was a much more more usable and seamless experience, but due to limitations in the web extensions API, this extension is missing some of that functionality."

(Paraphrasing the developer of the keepasshttp-connector add-on.)

https://github.com/smorks/keepasshttp-connector/issues/46#issuecomment-346847247


Expected results:

web extensions API should allow access to Firefox's password manager.

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

bug 1393683.