Firefox integration

[AlfioEmanueleFresta]

Tracks:

• Reaching out to Firefox eng team
• Implementation work

[AlfioEmanueleFresta]

Commented on Bugzilla 1530370 to gauge interest from the Firefox team on adopting platform APIs on Linux.

[AlfioEmanueleFresta]

Discourse: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/adopting-platform-fido-apis-u2f-webauthn-on-linux/107002

[stefan2904]

Ciao Alfie! First of all, thanks for all the effort and your work.

Just curious, was there any update from Mozilla on this? Do you consider it a requirement that the work is pushed from their side, or do you think it is also feasible to go forward by, e.g., try to develop a proof-of-concept integration into Firefox? (I guess this would help but also be frustrating if then ignored by Mozilla.)

Given the importance of 2FA in recent months and traction of passkeys, I am a bit confused about all the silence. ;-)

[rugk]

Backlink flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#989 (comment) and this bigger blog post on the topic laying out ideas for a design: https://alfioemanuele.io/dev/2024/01/31/a-vision-for-passkeys-on-the-linux-desktop.html

[iinuwa]

FYI, there's a patch for Firefox to interact with this D-Bus service, built and packaged as a Flatpak here: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/MSirringhaus:/webauthn_devel/openSUSE_Factory_flatpak/.

[gbdlin]

@iinuwa is there anywhere we can track the development of this patch? Has it been submitted to the Firefox repository?

[msirringhaus]

It has been submitted here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1983767

No upstream comments yet, though.