Brave-browser: Keepassxc extension integration

Created on 25 Oct 2018 · 11Comments · Source: brave/brave-browser

Description

After installing the KeepassXC browser extension, the extension is not able to connect to the database. While Vivaldi (chromium based as well) can connect to the database.

Steps to Reproduce

Set-up KeepassXC database and allow chromium browser integration (settings > browser integration > check Chromium)
Install KeepassXC extension from chrome store
Connect to Database.

Actual result:

Timeout message is thrown. Under settings in the extension the database name is not showing.

Expected result:

Successfully connected to the database to manage passwords.

Reproduces how often:

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

Version 0.55.20 Chromium: 70.0.3538.67 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Reproducible on current release:

Yes. Latest beta has the same issue.

Additional Information

Cross link: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/2414

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Source

tneo

Most helpful comment

Adding a symlink to org.keepassxc.keepassxc_browser.json in .config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/NativeMessagingHosts makes integration work. That file is found in .config/Chromium/NativeMessagingHosts

tneo on 9 Nov 2018

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All 11 comments

Could you try enabling Allow All cookies in settings for Cookie control and see if this fixes the issue?

srirambv on 25 Oct 2018

I can try that when I'm home again. What I forgot to mention in my ticket is that I'm running openSUSE.

tneo on 25 Oct 2018

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Allowing all cookies does not have effect. I also tried to add a symlink as suggested in the cross-linked thread.

tneo on 26 Oct 2018

tneo on 9 Nov 2018

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Seems to work now, at least on Mac OS Mojave, without checking chromium under browser integration settings.

hirvinen on 17 Dec 2018

Adding a symlink to org.keepassxc.keepassxc_browser.json in .config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/NativeMessagingHosts makes integration work. That file is found in .config/Chromium/NativeMessagingHosts

Thank you - I copied the file instead. It fixed the problem!

nickmcgill on 27 Dec 2018

Thank you +1. This worked for me too.

alxtrnr on 28 Dec 2018

I'm not sure this is fixable on the Brave side. Here's the issue in KeePassXC land (at least for Linux): https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/2414

The issue (consistent with @tneo's account above) seems to be that KeePassXC doesn't have an integration option for Brave, and thus doesn't know where to put its JSON configuration. This seems like it may be a wontfix for Brave?

mjgiarlo on 5 Mar 2019

Happy to close until I hear otherwise.

tomlowenthal on 5 Mar 2019

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Just to let anyone interested know, as of today (November 11, 2019), KeePassXC already has an option to enable Brave integration. Enabling it and installing the KPXC Chrome extension on Brave works fine.