Public bug reported:
Context: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/10906
In Q2 2024, the Chromium snap was tested with KeepassXC's browser
extension which relies upon the currently Ubuntu specific XDG Portals
patches. Both the Portal package itself and the Browsers must make use
of this interface to facilitate a sandbox mediation where the browser
can connect to the local installed package, in this case I'm showing
KeepassXC but my expectation is this is broken for every usecase of
Webextensions.
Due to a recent user report in the link above; I've checked this again
more recently using Ubuntu 24.10 in a LiveCD environment with no changes
to any packages apart from installing Chromium's snap and KeepassXC's
snap.
Chromium appears to have lost functionality entirely, whereas on e.g.,
Firefox, this functionality still works and the browser can connect.
Reproduction Steps:
1) sudo snap install chromium keepassxc
2) Open KeepassXC, set up a database file (it can be a dummy empty database
with a weak password for testing this)
3) Enable the Web Browser functionality in the KeepassXC settings, select
Chromium (and Firefox).
4) In Chromium and Firefox, install the KeepassXC extensions from their
relevant extension websites.
5) Attempt to connect the browser to the snap via the web extension icon.
Expected results: The portals interface should pop up once asking for
permission, followed by KeepassXC itself reacting and presenting its own
interface to setup an encryption key for the connection; this second
stage of KeepassXC responding to the connection request sufficiently
shows the connection is working as expected.
Actual results: This works for Firefox still, but no longer works for
Chromium, despite working in the past.
Electing to ignore the suggested terminal outputs below because I'm
hoping the above is already clear enough to suggest that there's likely
a portals patch Chromium's snap has been carrying that has either been
removed or regressed to be functionless, this is covered by the basic
`desktop` snap interface and that's connected by default; this wouldn't
be a sandboxing issue and I'm not expecting anything useful in the
outputs for this bug.
** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Chromium Snap (Ubuntu 24.10) regression in WebExtensions Portal
leading to loss of functionality entirely
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