Support for brave browser

[gmparker2000]

I would love to have this working in brave browser (https://brave.com/). The extension installs but cannot find any devices.

[pdf]

Works fine on Brave here, please provide the following:

• OS/distro/version: [e.g. Ubuntu 18.04]
• Browser/version [e.g. chrome 76, firefox 68]
• kdeconnect-cli version [kdeconnect-cli --version]
• kdeconnect-cli devices [kdeconnect-cli --list-devices]
• kdeconnect-chrome-extension version [kdeconnect-chrome-extension -version]

[gmparker2000]

That's great that it should work. When I ran the install I picked chromium. Details are:

OS
DISTRIB_ID=ManjaroLinux
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.0.4
DISTRIB_CODENAME=Illyria
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Manjaro Linux"

Browser
Brave
Version 0.67.119 Chromium: 76.0.3809.72 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit)

kdeconnect-cli
kdeconnect-cli 1.3.5

kdeconnect-cli devices

• Greg's phone: fc2ec7f768aac975 (paired and reachable)
  1 device found

kdeconnect-chrome-extension version
kdeconnect-chrome-extension version 0.1.3, built with go1.9.2

[pdf]

Please download this pre-release, extract it and run ./kdeconnect-chrome-extension -devices

[gmparker2000]

Not working in the browser. I get this:

kdeconnect-cli --list-devices

• My phone: fc2ec7f768aac675 (paired and reachable)
  1 device found

[pdf]

@gmparker2000 can you please post the output from the native host from my last message (I made a test build of the native host with a flag to output the devices it sees)?

[gmparker2000]

I grabbed the pre-release. I ran it and got:

./kdeconnect-chrome-extension --devices

• Greg's phone: fc2ec7f768aac975 (paired: true; reachable: true)

Is this what you want?

[pdf]

Great thanks, so it looks like the native host can talk to DBUS/kdeconnect okay, but somehow the browser extension is not getting that information. The extension should display an error in that case, so I'm a little confused.

Can you right-click the extension icon, select Manage Extensions, enable Developer Mode top-left, then enable Collect Errors. Restart your browser, click the extension icon once, then right-click it and select Manage Extensions again. If there are any errors, there will be an extra section there where you can view them, please post them here if they exist.

Sorry for the long-winded troubleshooting, but I can't reproduce any problems here.

[gmparker2000]

No error on the extension page. If I turn on developer tools and inspect the background page I see a bunch of errors on the console:

background.js:54 Missing message parameters {type: "typeVersion"}
postMessage @ background.js:54
onMessage @ background.js:70
(anonymous) @ browser-polyfill.min.js:1

and

Error in event handler: TypeError: Cannot read property 'postMessage' of null
    at postMessage (<URL>)
    at onMessage (<URL>)
    at <URL>

Happenning here:

function postMessage(msg) {
    if (!port || !msg || !msg.type) {
        console.error('Missing message parameters', msg);
    }
    port.postMessage(msg);
}

[pdf]

Seems to be having trouble talking to the native host in an unusual way. I'll try and make some time tonight to do some testing, but nothing obvious jumps out.

[zany130]

same issue here

[pdf]

I'm struggling to reproduce, which makes this tough for me to diagnose. I'll have to try spinning up a VM to test in a clean environment, but I just haven't had the time recently.

[hauweg]

Yes, support for Brave please <3

[pdf]

Thing is, it works fine on Brave here, so it's confusing why it doesn't work for some other people with that browser.

[malachy47]

I came across this thread via search as I too am having the same issue. KDE Connect works fine from the tray, but the Brave extension does not see any device. Running KDE Neon (Ubuntu 20 based).

[pdf]

Seems Brave messed something up in some versions wrt paths for native messaging hosts. Try choosing Chrome from the native host installer and see if that works.

brave/brave-browser#5074

[MatheusR42]

@malachy47 I managed to enable it. You need to follow the installation steps, select custom browser and add the Brave NativeMessagingHosts path. Mine is this:

/home/usrername/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/NativeMessagingHosts

My config:
Kubuntu 20
kdeconnect-cli 1.4.0
Brave V1.21.74

[manavdesai27]

@pdf I am facing the same issue. On running
./kdeconnect-chrome-extension -devices
I get the following:

Redmi K20 Pro: efa2d98185289bc2 (paired: true; reachable: false)

Can you help me fix this. I need to be able to run this extension on brave.

[pdf]

Try with the v0.1.6 release just published, and choose Brave when installing, hopefully this works for Brave users on current versions - they've made quite a mess of the paths.