Owl

A modern, clean keepass browser extension built with Vue.js and kdbxweb. Rebooted from perfectapi/CKP and subdavis/Tusk.

Installation

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/owl-keepass/

Chrome: @TODO: Add store link

Build Setup

Owl requires:

• node
• npm
• yarn

# install dependencies
yarn install

# build static DLL resources (optional)
yarn build-dll

# build for production with minification
yarn build

# run the packer script targeted for 'chrome' and 'firefox' after build.
# this step generates the zip archives submitted to Chrome/Firefox addon marketplaces.
yarn bundle

# static reload with file watch for tests
yarn dev-tests

For detailed explanation on how things work, consult the docs for vue-loader.

Running tests

To run tests, first build them with yarn build-tests or yarn watch-tests then open tests/test.html in a browser.

Browser Permissions

Owl requires cross-origin permissions in order to inject credentials and query the storage backends on the user's behalf.

In Chrome, these permissions requests are always prompted to the user upon first use.

Because of Firefox's implementation of browser.permissions, it was necessary to request all permissions at install time to avoid code rot. A deeper explanation of the firefox permissions can be found on stackoverflow