(sorry about the last missive - continued) On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 3:38 PM richard coleman <rcoleman.ascen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Darren, > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 3:03 PM Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> > wrote: > >> Have you tried using more than one browser? >> that's what I've taken to doing, I have a separate install of Chromium >> just for pgAdmin4. I've even changed the browser command to > > "chromium-browser %URL% " so that it starts with the right browser. Although not all browsers are apparently equal. Back on 2019-06-19 04:10:13 Khushboo Vashi <khushboo(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote in response to an issue I was having under Chromium; > "I would suggest, try a different browser as well as Chromium is not the > supported browser for pgAdmin." Which suggests that there is *a supported browser* for pgAdmin4. This begs the question, if there's only a *single* supported browser, what exactly is the point of a web app? It's like web sites that only worked correctly under IE6. Developing pgAdmin4 as a *web app*/*web server* thing might make sense from a development standpoint, but personally I think it introduces way more problems than it solves. just my $0.02. > Load pgAdmin and/or a small number of secured things you want to stay >> logged in >> for longer periods, while do your majority of activities or the ones >> you'd want >> to clear your browser for in others. >> >> I for example have Safari plus Firefox plus Chrome and compartmentalize >> my >> activity between them, and they're all mutually isolated. >> >> -- Darren Duncan >> >> On 2019-07-27 5:54 a.m., tutilu...@tutanota.com wrote: >> > Sorry for repeating this, but the only replies I got were unrelated to >> what I >> > typed, instead briefly discussing master passwords. >> > >> > Every single day, even after getting rid of the "master password" >> nonsense >> > (which was a nightmare in itself), pgAdmin keeps asking me, again >> and again, >> > to enter the password when I try to connect to my servers. This is >> cleared >> > every single time I clear my browser data, which is an absolute >> necessity >> > multiple times a day. >> > >> > I don't want pgAdmin to have anything to do with my browser, and >> dealing >> > with multiple "profiles" is very impractical and tedious to set up. >> I don't >> > want them connected whatsoever. Please make a proper GUI that is >> entirely >> > separate from your "normal browser", allowing it to remember >> passwords and >> > not constantly forget them because it's attached to your normal >> browser's data. >> > >> > The GUI can be an embedded browser and has no need whatsoever for >> constant >> > security updates because all it does is load pgAdmin 4's code. It >> doesn't >> > need to be able to do anything else, nor should it be able to. It >> shouldn't >> > even be apparent to the user that it's a browser at all -- it >> should just >> > open a GUI window with pgAdmin 4 inside of it -- not rely on my >> browser >> > environment. >> > >> > I almost recall that this actually was done in the past. Why you >> would >> > abandon this idea is inexplicable to me, since "just using the >> normal >> > browser" causes so many annoying problems. >> > >> > >> >> >> >>
