On 19/3/25 07:40, Steve Cossette via kde wrote:

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM Patrick O'Callaghan via kde <kde@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Tue, 2025-03-18 at 13:41 +0000, Barry via kde wrote:
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> > On 18 Mar 2025, at 13:15, Patrick Boutilier via kde <kde@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> > A bit off topic, but I have found that if you ssh into a machine, then run Chrome (I believe wayland was being used on source end), the saved passwords don't show up. They do if run locally directly on the machine. I haven't figured out why yet.
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> I would guess you need access to the gnome keyring?

Passwords yes, but why would the keyring be used for storing cookies?

poc


I think the browser stores some kind of user secret in the keyring. And when you switch DE, that secret gets lost, wiping the cookies.

That's my thought, though. But yes, that happens with alot of Chrome-based browsers that I use. Not sure about Firefox ones, I don't use two DEs at a time myself.
I have both installed and sometimes switch between them when a site doesn't conform to the W3C standards and hence doesn't display properly with Firefox, but in my view Chrome doesn't work properly with it cache compared to Firefox. I configure Firefox to wipe cookies and everything else at Firefox shutdown, but I can't get Chrome to do the same thing, it seems to only provide manual functionality. With that functionality active I haven't found any differences between running either under Gnome or KDE when I switch between the two, and I don't have the browser saving passwords, if I want to save a password I do that on an external electronic device so that they are available in all OS's I run.
I also use Thunderbird with with IMAP and SMTP (if needed) password stored internally, and I don't have any issue with those passwords being used for mail access under both KDE and Gnome when I switch between the two.

regards,
Steve