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Browserpass native client app
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Microsoft Edge (Linux) - Error: Specified native messaging host not found. #121

Closed rylancates closed 1 year ago

rylancates commented 2 years ago

General information

If you are getting an error immediately after opening popup, have you followed the Configure browsers documentation section?

Exact steps to reproduce the problem

  1. Clone latest release

  2. make && sudo make install

  3. See the error message in the browser extension in Edge

What should happen?

I'd like this extension to work in Edge :)

What happened instead?

I received the error message in the Issue Title

maximbaz commented 2 years ago

Hello, the error you are getting is because it's not enough to just install Browserpass, every browser has to also be specifically configured - however unfortunately we don't have a configuration yet for the Edge 🙂 If you like to try, you can try to find it or reverse engineer it, and submit a PR once you succeed - look at paths in Makefile for other Chromium derivatives, maybe you will just succeed in guessing 😉 If not you can at least feel free to share your findings in this issue, so that other community members can jump in and also try to help.

rylancates commented 2 years ago

@maximbaz I've managed to get this working with the user command by placing the json file in "$(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)/microsoft-edge/NativeMessagingHosts/$(APP_ID).json.

The system-wide command is a bit less straight forward.

The directory structure for Edge is sufficiently different to the point I'm not so sure how to proceed.

I was looking for a similar directory to /etc/opt/chrome/ for Edge, but Edge doesn't appear to install into that path. The nearest I can find for Edge is /opt/microsoft/msedge/. Then, I took a chance and placed the native-messaging-hosts folder in that directory, but to no effect.

Further:

I'd be happy to open a PR with modifications that add support for Linux via the hosts-edge-user step, but it would be incomplete support for the browser.

How would you prefer I proceed at this point?

rylancates commented 2 years ago

PR #122 opened for discussion

maximbaz commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the investigation and for the PR 👍 Will leave the comments there.

I'm not 100% sure what the policies functionality is or does

It auto-installs browser extension, so that a user doesn't have to get it from Web Store. In the browser extension list, such extension would look a bit different, with "Uninstall" button disabled as it's impossible to remove such extension directly from the browser. You could say, abusing a bit a browser feature of enforcing corporate policies in order to improve user experience of getting the extension to work 🙂

rylancates commented 2 years ago

Thank you for explaining. Fair enough! It's a nice touch for convenience :)

maximbaz commented 1 year ago

This has been merged, closing, thanks!