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KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.
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No browser connection when switching from Light/Dark theme to Classic #7331

Closed ogmios-voice closed 2 years ago

ogmios-voice commented 2 years ago

Overview

While the browser can connect perfectly to KeePassXC when it is using the Light/Dark theme, it will not be able to connect to KeePassXC when it is using the Classic theme. (Note: was tested only w/ the Dark theme.)

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Start KeePassXC w/ Light/Dark theme
  2. Create a new database (while using the Light/Dark theme) -- not user about this requirement
  3. Connect browser to KeePassXC
  4. Switch KeePassXC to Classic theme + restart KeePassXC
  5. Browser will be unable to connect to KeePassXC -- note: restarting the browser was not tested
  6. Switch KeePassXC back to Light/Dark theme + restart KeePassXC
  7. Browser is able to connect again to KeePassXC

Expected Behavior

Themes should have no effect on connection.

Actual Behavior

See Steps to Reproduce.

Context

KeePassXC - Version 2.6.6 Revision: 9c108b9 Qt 5.15.2 Operating system: Windows 10 Version 2009 CPU architecture: x86_64 Kernel: winnt 10.0.19043

Firefox 96.0.2 x64 KeePassXC-Browser 1.7.11

droidmonkey commented 2 years ago

There is absolutely no connection between the app theme and the browser extension. You need to do more testing.

varjolintu commented 2 years ago

Restarting KeePassXC might rewrite the scripts meant for Native Messaging. If you have done some manual tweaking, your files could've been overwritten.

ogmios-voice commented 2 years ago

All I did was to turn up the decryption time of the database. So I guess nothing relevant. I've tried to reproduce the issue in more isolated circumstances, but I was unable to do so: it's working fine now. The browser (both Firefox and Chrome) disconnects from KeePassXC from time to time w/o any reasonable explanation (the computer was on all the time, so no sleep, hibernate etc. in between), but for now I can reconnect to it at the very first request regardless of the active theme.

varjolintu commented 2 years ago

@ogmios-voice When the disconnect happens next time check if keepassxc-proxy.exe process is still running. There should be one process per browser. Some anti-virus or anti-malware software can sometimes shut it down or prevent it from launching.