Extension does not autofill "accounts.firefox.com/signin" (Firefox only) - Githubissues

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Extension does not autofill "accounts.firefox.com/signin" (Firefox only) #315

Closed apiraino closed 5 years ago

apiraino commented 5 years ago

General information

Operating system + version: ubuntu 18.10
Browser + version: Firefox 66.0b2
Information about the host app:
- How did you install it? Downloaded a pre-built binary
- If installed an official release, put a version: 2.0.22
Information about the browser extension:
- How did you install it? downloaded a pre-built extension
- Browserpass extension version as reported by your browser: 2.0.22

Exact steps to reproduce the problem

go to accounts.firefox.com/signin
ctrl+shit+l to open the browserpass popup, search and select the desired pass item

What should happen?

username/password form fields should be filled automatically
The OTP popup should appear

What happened instead?

username/password form fields are not filled automatically
The OTP popup did not appear either

Additinal info:

the password item is correctly unpacked, just not copied into the page
on Chromium 71.0.3578.98 everything works

apiraino commented 5 years ago

Answering my own question (suddently came up to my mind).

For security reasons, by default Firefox does not allow extension to work in their domains.

I believe (not tested) that this can be overriden by hacking the about:config prefs.