Midori is a lightweight web browser.
FS#53 - Implement a password management component
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Opened by Martin Sugioarto (nakal) - Friday, 18 July 2008, 00:27 GMT+2
Last edited by Brian Vuyk (BrianV) - Monday, 10 November 2008, 20:35 GMT+2
Opened by Martin Sugioarto (nakal) - Friday, 18 July 2008, 00:27 GMT+2
Last edited by Brian Vuyk (BrianV) - Monday, 10 November 2008, 20:35 GMT+2
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DetailsI'm sure that many users would adopt midori, if it had some convenient basic tools.
What I really need is a password management component. I have very many different passwords and I cannot remember them all at once, but I would like to have them saved, once I typed them in. Bonus: I'm sure many people also need a bookmark management at the GUI level. I converted my bookmarks.html manually with a perl script. That's why I don't need this component. But it is still important. -- Keep on doing the good work. It can be really great. |
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I would really like to use Midori, but with out it saving cookies it's to much of a pain.
Have you tried using QtWebKit, as I have found a browser called Arora that uses it and it supports cookies and private browsing.
It still may lack a passwords manager
i've seen that WebKitGTK+ 1.1.1 has optional gnome-keyring storage but i don't know if there is something identical for xfce also
Nevertheless, it's the midori developers' choice whether to use a feature already existing in webkit or rewriting something from scratch.
If Midori did implement it's own method it would probably be akin to storing passwords in plain text, or something no more secure (http://web.archive.org/web/20080112190917/developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords). To truly have a secure way of implementing password management Midori would basically have to do a carbon copy of gnome-keyring, which would be a waste of developer time, and infact would lead to a more bloated system if every piece of software which stores passwords did this.
What exactly is the aversion to gnome-keyring, is it that gnome-keyring does it's job badly, and reimplementing the functionality in midori would be an improvement or is it merely that it has gnome in the name?
Also, as I'm sure some will already be familiar with is in the new Fedora 11 there is support for logging in using a fingerprint, and even sudo can be authenticated by fingerprint, it's only a matter of time before fingerprint authentication is supported by gnome-keyring. This would be a massive bonus for Midori over Firefox, one that otherwise would have to be reimplemented specifically for Midori's keyring.
Why reinvent the wheel when the best tool for the job is already available?
Also gnome-keyring only depends on gconf and hal both of which are light on dependencies and shouldn't pose any objections. There are no libgnome(ui) and bonobo(ui) dependencies in gnome-keyring.
If Midori did implement it's own method it would probably be akin to storing passwords in plain text, or something no more secure (http://web.archive.org/web/20080112190917/developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords). To truly have a secure way of implementing password management Midori would basically have to do a carbon copy of gnome-keyring, which would be a waste of developer time, and infact would lead to a more bloated system if every piece of software which stores passwords did this.
What exactly is the aversion to gnome-keyring, is it that gnome-keyring does it's job badly, and reimplementing the functionality in midori would be an improvement or is it merely that it has gnome in the name?
Also, as I'm sure some will already be familiar with is in the new Fedora 11 there is support for logging in using a fingerprint, and even sudo can be authenticated by fingerprint, it's only a matter of time before fingerprint authentication is supported by gnome-keyring. This would be a massive bonus for Midori over Firefox, one that otherwise would have to be reimplemented specifically for Midori's keyring.
Why reinvent the wheel when the best tool for the job is already available?
I tested this http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:URiZ73rvVSYJ:userscripts.org/scripts/show/62098+password+manager+midori&cd=4&hl=fr&ct=clnk without much success so far.