Browser: clipboardRead permission requested

[IanSavchenko]

Hi,

Chrome disabled version 1.39.1 of extension due to a new permission requested. Can I ask what is the purpose of it? Looking quickly through the code, I see that a readFromClipboard utility function was introduced recently, but is never used. https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/commit/91a0566f2c745718773b71b693bacefe688924de#diff-051a8a7bcae8db1e4cee8eb09b52e619

Btw, thanks for such a nice product from a premium subscriber and promoter 🙌

[kspearrin]

This permission was added to support the new auto-clear clipboard feature: https://community.bitwarden.com/t/automatically-clear-clipboard-after-x-seconds-when-using-copy-functions/29

[IanSavchenko]

Awesome, thank you!

A small suggestion for the future: mention this kind of things in the changelog or have the permission optional and requested when a new feature is activated by the user.

Keep up the good work! 👏

[kspearrin]

have the permission optional and requested when a new feature is activated by the user.

Unfortunately this is not possible with web extensions. Permissions have to be requested up front in the manifest.

[IanSavchenko]

Unfortunately this is not possible with web extensions. Permissions have to be requested up front in the manifest.

I believe it is possible and not too hard, actually. Check out these links for Chrome and on MDN. (I just happen to work with web extensions).

[kspearrin]

Wow, TIL. Thanks.

[kspearrin]

Leaving open for visibility.