1611700 - [API Request] WebExtension API for password managers to provide credentials

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: Extensions API, enhancement)

Description

[kkapsner]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Steps to reproduce:

There should be an API that allows password managers (like keepass(xc), lastpass, etc.) to provide credentials when they are needed.

Something similar to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/webRequest/onAuthRequired could work but it has to fire for all kind of credential requests: imap, pop3, smtp, nntp, oauth, http(s), webdav, etc.
It should also be possible for other addons to leverage this API to retrieve credentials.

I created https://github.com/kkapsner/keepassxc-mail for keepassxc which uses an experiment. But I think it would be better if the API would integrate on a deeper level than the UI.

Comment 1

[kkapsner]

With "other addons" I mean something like Provider for Google Calendar

Comment 2

[Carl Norman Freudenberg]

+1 for this feature.

Comment 3

[kkapsner]

Any decision on this feature?

BTW at the moment my experiment does not work any more since TB 73 as ExtensionSupport.registerWindowListener seems to do nothing now...

Comment 4

[kocjs]

+1 for this feature

Comment 5

[Carl Norman Freudenberg]

Would also like to see this impemented

Comment 6

[kkapsner]

Who can decide on this feature?

PS: my experiment now works again in newer TB.

Comment 7

[txtsd [:txtsd]]

An update on this would be nice.

It's very helpful to be able to interface with a password manager without having to deal with the idiosyncrasies of "hacks".
See: https://github.com/kkapsner/keepassxc-mail/issues/68

Comment 8

[John Bieling (:TbSync)]

I am unaware of a Firefox API to interact with password prompts. Asked for more info in the linked issue.

Comment 9

[Luke Warlow]

I've made a proposal issue for an extensions API for credential management to the web extensions GitHub repository https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/361

For the full benefits Firefox would have to "finish" implementing the credential management API https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1156047 specifically the PasswordCredential type.