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I would like to see firefox using KDE's wallet instead of it's private. It's duplicated functionality and I have to type wallet passwords twice.

Added a tag.

I know a lot of people in KDE have wanted to do this, with password management in Linux in general, and I think something has come of it, but I don't know the details or time frame.

I think it'd be great, but I thought it depended on the Firefox port to Qt being worked on first?

Angel Blue01 wrote:I think it'd be great, but I thought it depended on the Firefox port to Qt being worked on first?

There is a wish for this in Firefox here which suggests this, but I am not sure if this is true. Because a Qt-Port of Firefox will propably take its time or will never happen. Firefox handles a lot of things with extensions. I don't know about the inner workings of the extension API which may prevent it. But if not, there could be a extension for firefox doing this, like there are other extensions taking over bookmarking functionality and so on.

Mark

There's work on a Qt port of Firefox, although its moving slowly; I thought I read on KDE's Bugzilla that the current Firefox (in GTK) can't do it...

I personally find Firefox support for Linux absolutely abysmal.

The one that first comes to mind is how it handles downloads - it does not look for a default application to open files with, it does not even try. And if I decide to select an application, it wants me to give it a whole path - that is, if I wanted to open a PDF, I need to go find /usr/kde/4.1/bin/okular.

The only thing they ever tried to do to integrate is the half-assed attempt to make it fit more by using either gnome's icons or kde 3's.

I'm sure some distros fix it up a bit, but I've been using Gentoo pretty much exclusively since 2005 (except for playing with Arch a bit in 2007). The point is, in my opinion, that Mozilla does not really care since we're a small portion of their users and we're not going to revert to some non-standards-compliant browser like IE.

actually they also used gnome HIG and for example : moved OK Cancel buttons to Cancel OK ... though that in fact only ruins kde integration, luckily you can revert the buttons back with a custom css file ...

Angel Blue01 wrote:There's work on a Qt port of Firefox, although its moving slowly; I thought I read on KDE's Bugzilla that the current Firefox (in GTK) can't do it...

I could not find anything about it. Just the wishreport here. So it would be good to know. I guess someone who wrote a plugin would be more easier then a qt port.

Mark

Alec wrote:I personally find Firefox support for Linux absolutely abysmal.

I agree and it is quite annoying and it may be not a direct task for KDE devs, because it means dealing with gtk-toolkit. Like you say, I think it would mean pushing the distros which partly have been doing something, but not really consequently.
I am not sure if this suggestion should be pushed into a "complete Firefox integration" one. If so, we would have to discuss here how to attract attention of distros and Firefox devs too.
There is a list on the mozilla-wiki here and I have recently posted a list of what I miss here.. If this continues here, we try to generate a full list integration aspects and resources (bug reports/wishes) on them. I don't know about the aspect of attracting distros and devs.

Mark

markum wrote:I could not find anything about it. Just the wishreport here. So it would be good to know.

This bug is the other way round, ie making KDE able to read Firefox's passwords, while the original idea here is making Firefox use KWallet's passwords.

Back to the idea, KDE can concretely do nothing about that. All the needed work should be done by Firefox.

Angel Blue01 wrote:I think it'd be great, but I thought it depended on the Firefox port to Qt being worked on first?

No.
KWallet is a session service which can be accessed by any application running in the same user session.

In any case, the maintainers of KWallet and gnome-key-ring have started work to build a unified service for the same purpose. Once this is released and used by GNOME and KDE, there will be little excuse for Mozilla not to use it.

Cheers,
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Cant there be a plugin analog to foxmarks, but to sync to loaclhost?

This way we could sync passwords and bookmarks too

GNOME team already works on DBUS wallet API. KDE apps and GNOME should uses this one, so we can uses many wallets applications(but probably not at once).

Then dbus2FFplugin app?