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Bit #4: Make LibreWolf communicate with password managers

Some browser extensions for password managers depend on native messaging to communicate with the actual password manager application.1 Bitwarden and KeePassXC are two of them.23

Under macOS, execute the following command to enable native messaging for LibreWolf.

ln -s ~/Library/Application\ Support/Mozilla/NativeMessagingHosts ~/Library/Application\ Support/LibreWolf/NativeMessagingHosts

For Bitwarden this only seems to work when the actual application is not locked.

  1. "Native messaging enables an extension to exchange messages with a native application." --MDN

  2. See the LibreWolf FAQ about native messaging.

  3. See the Bitwarden community thread about LibreWolf and biometrics.

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