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'Browserpass' started debugging this browser

See original GitHub issue

General information

Operating system + version: MacOS Mojave 10.14.6
Browser + version: Chrome Version 84.0.4147.105 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Information about the host app:

Installed via homebrew

# brew info browserpass                                                                                                                                                                                 
amar1729/formulae/browserpass: stable 3.0.6 (bottled)
This is a host application for browserpass browser extension providing it access to your password store.
https://github.com/browserpass/browserpass-native
/usr/local/Cellar/browserpass/3.0.6 (11 files, 4MB) *
  Poured from bottle on 2019-06-09 at 11:32:45
From: https://github.com/amar1729/homebrew-formulae/blob/HEAD/browserpass.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: coreutils ✔, gnu-sed ✔
Required: gpg ✔, pinentry ✔, pinentry-mac ✔
==> Caveats
********************************************************************************
* To configure your browser, RUN THE FOLLOWING:

$ PREFIX='/usr/local/opt/browserpass' make hosts-BROWSER-user -f /usr/local/opt/browserpass/lib/browserpass/Makefile

* Where BROWSER is one of the following: [chromium chrome vivaldi brave firefox]
********************************************************************************

Information about the browser extension:
- Installed via Chrome
- Browserpass extension version as reported by your browser: 3.5.0

Exact steps to reproduce the problem

Visit any website
Open pass entry with Browserpass
Username and password is entered automatically

What should happen?

No popup message

What happened instead?

Chrome shows a popup message at the top

Everything works. I just want to get rid of the popup message.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:14 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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eraydcommented, Aug 12, 2020

@maximbaz I’d be more comfortable with removing it I think. If the warning is going to persist after use, then we shouldn’t be using that API, because it’ll alarm users (as demonstrated by the feedback you received).

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maximbazcommented, Aug 12, 2020

I have received other feedback where this “debugger” popup appeared when a user tried to login to their online banking, and it got them really really worried.

What do you think if we remove debugger permission altogether? Then browserpass will just leave the cursor in the form and let users press Enter, just like it does in Firefox.