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Sn0wCrack
New Contributor
2 years ago

Flatpak Browser and Native Desktop App

Thought I would share this as I've managed to get the native desktop app working with my flatpak installation of Firefox. I'm on Arch and using the version of 1Password from the AUR and the standa...
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LinuxSBC
New Contributor
7 months ago

I wrote a shell script to automatically add support for any Flatpak browser, based on either Chromium or Firefox. https://gist.github.com/LinuxSBC/7c39374130d2d443871ddde64cba18a3

Comment on the Gist if you have a browser that is still not integrating and I'll work on adding support for it.

  • Tom's avatar
    Tom
    Dedicated Contributor
    7 months ago

    Maybe flyinpancake and LinuxSBC should get together with Sn0wCrack and just create a repository instead of endless gists? Just so as a community you can work together and provide this community with a single (and up to date) link (and you never know, maybe someone from the 1P team joins as well?)

    Given the recent talk here on hijacking browser extensions that would make sure your script is also viable for validation of the extensions (good on you to have them properly whitelisted, but how would someone go about validating them)?

    Keep up the good work, kudos for contributing!

    • flyinpancake's avatar
      flyinpancake
      New Contributor
      7 months ago

      I've created a repo at https://github.com/FlyinPancake/1password-flatpak-browser-integration  LinuxSBC  Sn0wCrack feel free to contribute if you'd like

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        LinuxSBC
        New Contributor
        7 months ago

        Thanks, could you please give me commit privileges? My Github username is the same as my one here.

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      Sn0wCrack
      New Contributor
      7 months ago

      This is probably the best I've seen the script is fully automated and works on both Firefox and Chrome browsers under Flatpak.

      The extension whitelist is a requirement essentially of a custom native messaging file, and there's not really a need to modify that list unless 1Passwors publishes a new extension.

      Hopefully this shouldn't be needed in the near future anyways as a major focus of the next xdg-desktop-portal release does appear to be native messaging and there's a lot of movement around a new PR for it's implementation.