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Firefox 80 issue? Browserpass icon disappears

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General information

  • Operating system + version: Arch Linux
  • Browser + version: Firefox v80
  • Information about the host app:
    • How did you install it? package manager
    • If installed an official release, put a version ($ browserpass --version): 3.0.7
    • If built from sources, put a commit id ($ git describe --always):
  • Information about the browser extension:
    • How did you install it? package manager
    • Browserpass extension version as reported by your browser: 3.5.0

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


Exact steps to reproduce the problem

  1. Start new instance of firefox

  2. Very quickly after the window gets visible the browserpass icon disappears

  3. after manually disable/enable the browserpass addon in firefox the icon stays visible as long as firefox isn’t closed

  4. after closing and opening a new instance: browserpass icon disappears again.

What should happen?

browserpass icon should be avilable

What happened instead?

browserpass icon disappers

Problem started after Firefox was updated from v79 to v80

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions:1
  • Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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2reactions
maximbazcommented, Aug 26, 2020

Luckily it works, I just pushed browserpass-firefox-3.5.0-2 to community, do let me know if you still experience some issues 🙂

1reaction
ybc37commented, Aug 26, 2020

Ok, I see and it makes perfect sense. I agree, a second install has a smell and even more if it would be the only package doing so 😃 Thanks for taking the time and explaining it!

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