Tridactyl doesn't load native after nativeinstall

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Tridactyl doesn't load native after nativeinstall

ChocolateOverflow opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Chocolate Overflow commented 4 years ago

Tridactyl version: firefox-tridactyl 1.18.1-1
Firefox version: Mozilla Firefox 76.0.1
Operating system: Manjaro linux

Brief description of the problem:
Firefox loads Tridactyl just fine but native doesn't seem to work at all. I've tried both yay -S firefox-tridactyl-native and :nativeinstall but neither seems to work.
Steps to reproduce:

Install Tridactyl with sudo pacman -S firefox-tridactyl
Use yay -S firefox-tridactyl-native to install native from the AUR
Restart firefox several times.
:native returns Native messenger not found...
Uninstall firefox-tridactyl-native
Run (from installnative) curl -fsSl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/master/native/install.sh -o /tmp/trinativeinstall.sh && bash /tmp/trinativeinstall.sh master
Restart firefox several times
:native returns Native messenger not found...

Config (in a new tab, run :viewconfig, copy the url and paste it somewhere like gist.github.com):
https://pastebin.com/n2UQbuGY
Contents of ~/.tridactylrc or ~/.config/tridactyl/tridactylrc (if they exist):

" vim: filetype=vim

" Allow Ctrl-a to select all in the commandline
unbind --mode=ex <C-a>

" Allow Ctrl-c to copy in the commandline
unbind --mode=ex <C-c>

set searchengine duckduckgo
set smoothscroll true
set newtab about:blank

autocmd DocStart mail.google.com mode ignore
autocmd DocStart youtube.com mode ignore

bind H tabprev
bind L tabnext
bind K forward
bind J back

Result of running :! echo $PATH, or ! echo %PATH% on Windows, in Tridactyl:
No output.
Unix-like only: result of running printf '%c\0\0\0{"cmd": "run", "command": "echo $PATH"}' 39 | ~/.local/share/tridactyl/native_main.py in a terminal:

3{"cmd": "run", "content": "/home/user_name/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/opt/nessus/bin:/opt/nessus/sbin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/user_name/.custom/scripts/bspwm:/home/user_name/.custom/scripts/ctf:/home/user_name/.custom/scripts\n", "code": 0}

Ghjuvan Lacambre · Answer 1 · Sat May 23 2020 01:08:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Are you running Firefox in any kind of sandbox (Firejail, Apparmor, Snap, Flatpak…)?

Chocolate Overflow · Answer 2 · Sat May 23 2020 15:53:01 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm running firefox with firejail. Which directories should I whitelist?

Ghjuvan Lacambre · Answer 3 · Sat May 23 2020 15:56:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

On 2020-05-23 09:53, Chocolate Overflow wrote: I'm running firefox with firejail. Which directories should I whitelist?

~/.config/tridactyl/ ~/.share/tridactyl/ ~/.mozilla/ ~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/ You might also need to authorize Firefox to run Python and access python's libraries, as that's the language in which the native messenger is written.

Chocolate Overflow · Answer 4 · Sat May 23 2020 17:58:36 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I've whitelisted them in firejail's firefox.profile:

whitelist ${HOME}/config/tridactyl/
whitelist ${HOME}/share/tridactyl/
whitelist ${HOME}/.mozilla/
whitelist ${HOME}/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/
whitelist /usr/bin/python3*
whitelist ${HOME}/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/*

However, it's still not giving me Native messenger not found. Is there something wrong with my whitelist?

Oliver Blanthorn · Answer 5 · Sat May 23 2020 18:26:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@ChocolateOverflow if you enable Firejail logging with --tracelog it should tell you what the problem is. See netblue30/firejail#152

Please report back if you work it out as we should add the solution to our FAQ.

Fox Kiester · Answer 6 · Fri Aug 27 2021 09:03:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@ChocolateOverflow Did you ever figure this out? I get no output with --tracelog. No idea what else needs to be whitelisted.

Gerard Bosch · Answer 7 · Sat Nov 27 2021 03:53:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Should native work out-of-the-box when Firefox is installed with Snap?
I installed native but when I run :native it tells it's not found. I'm suspecting it is because of Snap installation.

Gerard Bosch · Answer 8 · Sat Nov 27 2021 07:14:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi there! I confirm that after installing Firefox with Nix package manager, native works, so it seems it does not work with Snap - I guess it cannot access the path where native is installed.

I've also noticed that recently Snap migrated Firefox profiles and stuff from ~/.mozilla to ~/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla. I found this as there was a replica of all my profiles in the later, and stat shows it was created last month.

Do you think this could be stated in the README/FAQ?

Also I'm not very sure if native installer could be updated to consider the new Snap path (~/snap/firefox/.mozilla/) or if on the contrary, native is not compatible with Snap.

Saul Reynolds-Haertle · Answer 9 · Mon Dec 27 2021 10:04:28 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It looks to me like native is flat-out incompatible with firefox from snaps: There's no way to give a snap a permission to launch the necessary processes. https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/native-messaging-support-in-strictly-confined-browser-snaps/26849/6

This is a particularly substantial problem because newer versions of Ubuntu ship firefox only as a snap. Since this also breaks my ability to version-control my tridactyl config, it looks like it's time for me to switch to fedora for good.

Ghjuvan Lacambre · Answer 10 · Mon Dec 27 2021 14:45:34 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

You could also install firefox from Mozilla's website, which as far as I understand is just a regular binary (with the ability to auto-update).

Oliver Blanthorn · Answer 11 · Tue Dec 28 2021 07:17:03 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Related FF bug tracking the issue with snaps: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661935