(In reply to Mikko Rantalainen from comment #64) > For Gnome compatible environments: there's no ready-made extension at > addons.mozilla.org but you can fetch the latest version from > https://github.com/infinity0/mozilla-gnome-keyring or if you use Ubuntu, you > can add PPA from https://launchpad.net/~fat-lobyte9/+archive/ppa-public and > install package called "mozilla-gnome-keyring" which will add password > integration for both Firefox and Thunderbird.
This is only partly correct as this does not seem to work on Ubuntu >= 12.10. [1] Now I know that Ubuntu is not the only GNOME-based distro and Mozilla doesn't seem to be the one to blame for these particular difficulties, but I as a user of both Ubuntu and Firefox would love to see an implementation of this feature... [1] https://github.com/infinity0/mozilla-gnome-keyring/issues/26 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41179 Title: Integrate with Gnome Keyring Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “xulrunner-1.9” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “xulrunner-1.9.1” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: For a really good Gnome integration, it would be great to have the ability to save passwords in the Gnome keyring. A similar thing has been proposed for Epiphany: see https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/3467. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/41179/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
