We've already seen examples of this erosion of trust in the case of LastPass recently, and now one of the other big password manager brands stands accused of not doing enough to prevent password theft. Which is why trust in these applications is so important and why that trust can get dented when responses to security researcher concerns appear less than reassuring. This is why, and I return to my opening gambit, password managers are seen by so many, including myself and the Straight Talking Cyber team at Forbes, as essential. With password reuse rife, and given the number of passwords we have it's hardly surprising, that unique, random, and complex passwords are key. Those who would wish to steal your money or data, be they your average cybercriminal or a state-sponsored team of hackers, look to credential compromise as a first port of call. I created the folder manually and tried re-installing the extension (and went through the process of granting it access to other programs etc.) but again it didn’t help.įinally I copied this file from a working machine and that helped.Password managers are rightly seen by many security professionals as an essential part of your account takeover mitigation toolkit. In my case neither file nor folder ( NativeMessagingHosts) was present. Looks like the following file is needed for browser integration: ~/Library/Application Support/Mozilla/NativeMessagingHosts/. And thanks to this GitHub thread I finally cracked it. I was in a particularly adamant mood so persistend in trying to find a solution. Finally I gave up and moved on… until today. I’ve reinstalled the Bitwarden, the extension, Firefox, rebooted… all the usual stuff, but nothing’s helped. On this (macOS) when I ask the browser extension (Firefox) to use biometrics it keeps complaining that Browser integration is not enabled. Bitwarden browser integration works fine on all my machines, except one.

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