Can't install extension on ArchLinux

General information

• Operating system + version: ArchLinux 5.1.5

• Browser + version: Chromium 74.0.3729.169 Arch Linux

• Information about the host app:

  • How did you install it? by pacman
  • If installed an official release, put a version ($ browserpass --version): Browserpass host app version:

• Information about the browser extension:

  • How did you install it? by pacman
  • Browserpass extension version as reported by your browser: I can’t see it in my browser.

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If you are getting an error immediately after opening popup, have you followed the Configure browsers documentation section?

No, but it is said that

If you installed a distro package above, you are done!

So I did nothing.

Exact steps to reproduce the problem

1. I used to have browserpass native from pacman and Chromium extension from webstore.

2. I found it can’t work one day and I tried to delete the webstore version and install from pacman. But the extension does not come out as expected.

What should happen?

It seems that all the things installing from pacman can be used out of the box. So the extension should be found in my browser.

What happened instead?

Apparently, it does not appear.

Did I do something wrong?

[maximbaz]

try to drag-and-drop the crx file from /usr/lib/browserpass-chromium/ into chrome://extensions, will it help?

is it the first time you install browserpass, or you played with it before and uninstalled it at some point?

also try to run chromium with a new profile to make sure the problem is not with your own profile:

chromium --user-data-dir /tmp/test1

[maximbaz]

No I don’t think so - make sure to ping me if that happens!

My best guess on what happened is that for some reason your Chromium profile blocked our extension, and by manually drag-n-dropp’ing it into chrome://extensions you told Chromium that you want to unblock it. Now it should keep working and auto-updating as expected.

Closing for now, enjoy your new extension 😉