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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.




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


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)


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


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


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.


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


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




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