browserpass icon not showing in chromium

[mstarodub]

General information

• Operating system + version: Ubuntu 16.04
• Browser + version: ungoogled-chromium 65.0
• Information about the host app:
  • How did you install it? ./install.sh
  • Installed via a package manager, downloaded a pre-built binary, compiled yourself? pre-built binary
  • If installed an official release, put a version: v2.0.22
  • In the recent versions it can be obtained with $ browserpass -v Browserpass host app version: 2.0.22
  • If in doubt what version you have, download and re-install the latest version!
  • If built from sources, put a commit id ($ git describe --always):
• Information about the browser extension:
  • How did you install it? Downloaded seperately from the releases page (same version as the binary) prior to installing the host app, drag and drop into extensions page
  • Installed via webstore, downloaded a pre-built extension, compiled yourself? pre-built
  • Browserpass extension version as reported by your browser: 2.0.22

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Exact steps to reproduce the problem

1. Icon doesn't show, even after restarting chromium and rebooting

   What should happen?

   The icon was visible before installing the host app

[maximbaz]

Hey, check if the extension is present and enabled on chrome://extensions, sounds like it was disabled maybe? Also, I have some icons hidden in the "three-dots" menu in Chromium, maybe browserpass is there for you:

[mstarodub]

I checked the three-dots-hidden-extension-menu, it's not there either. Also it seems that the extension can't be manually enabled.

[erayd]

@mstarodub What happens when you attempt to check the 'enable' checkbox?

[mstarodub]

@erayd It does nothing / isn't clickable.

[mstarodub]

If there's any additional informaion required, please tell me the names of the relevant command outputs / logfiles, so that I can post them.

[erayd]

@mstarodub Are you able to remove the manually-installed extension, and install it from the chrome store instead? Does that work?

[maximbaz]

Also try to remove the policy file, its location depends on what you chose in ./install.sh, but this is the file - see where it got added and remove it.

https://github.com/browserpass/browserpass/blob/33d9be90d664362613f606914f603f8a9a0dcf3b/install.sh#L133

Policy is there to automatically install the extension for you from Chrome Webstore, if you don't want auto-updates and want to install extension manually, you don't need policy anyway.

[mstarodub]

@erayd I can't seem to remove it through normal means. @maximbaz removed it, but so far nothing changed on the "extensions" page.

[maximbaz]

This line should disappear (maybe chromium restart is needed) and after that you can remove the extension and drag-n-drop it again.

[mstarodub]

removed the entire folder, but weirdly, it's still there and I can't disable or remove it.

[maximbaz]

Double check that you found all locations where chrome-policy.json was installed, the message "extension is managed and cannot be removed" can only mean that the policy is active.

[mstarodub]

Thank you for your help. I made sure I deleted every file related to browserpass, and it worked after a reinstall. It seems like the issue was in installing the extension seperately from the releases page prior to installing the host application.