[Firefox extension] 'You are not logged in' when logged in to Onminvore on a Firefox Multi-Account Container tab

[stoic-cat]

Description

Trying to save an article when already logged in to Omnivore in a firefox mult-account container tab results in a confusing 'You are not logged in' message.

Reproduction steps

1. Log in to Omnivore in any firefox container tab
2. Click on Omnivore extension
3. Error message shows up

Screenshots

Solutions/Workarounds

The issue here is that I was not logged in to Omnivore in a non container tab and Omnivore probably has problems trying to read cookies of containers. There are 2 ways I can currently think of:

• Log in to Omnivore on the default tab. - I prefer not to do this as I am using Firefox containers to segregate my cookies and browsing activity from one another.
• Allow configuration of credentials via extension preferences, similar to how Wallabag's Firefox extension authenticates to the backend. - This also allows us a place to specify a different endpoint for those who want to self host Improve support for users that want to deploy their own backened #25

Thanks!

[jacksonh]

Thanks, allowing users to paste in an API key is a good idea. I had been wondering about a solution to this issue.

[jacksonh]

Some notes on this:

need to add this to the manifest: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/options_ui

  "options_ui": {
    "page": "options.html",
    "open_in_tab": true
  },

From what I can tell we have three options for storing the key:

• extension storage: can only be access by extension, isn't encrypted on disk but most users have full disk encryption now
• file: would mean the extension needs file permissions, which might be a larger security concern
• memory only: user would have to update occasionally

[thelazyoxymoron]

+1

We can take a reference from wallabag: store the API token and adding a key in extension options to renew the token periodically.

[jacksonh]

Fix here, not published yet, need to do a bit more testing with other features like PDF handling: #2210

[jacksonh]

Submitted to the Firefox extension store.

[jacksonh]

ok, this is available as 2.0.4 in the add-ons store. Here is a quick demo:

https://www.loom.com/share/8d47fecd6454431b96e074dbea2fd8a6