I am running Fedora 39 and Fedora 40, and using Brave Browser.
I have chosen automatic vault lock in browser extension settings, it should lock “On system lock”. But it never locks.
I actually manually locked my machine 24 hours ago and when returning and unlocking, the BW extension is open with no requirement to enter password to unlock.
Just thought I’d report it here as I’ve noticed it for quite a few weeks/months now.
thanks
Can you clarify on that part a bit? - I read that as:
manually locked it → unlocked it (“returning and unlocking”) → and then I couldn’t unlock it (“is open with no requirement to enter password to unlock”)???
So did you unlock it then - or couldn’t unlock because it was not locked after manual locking?
Because otherwise, you seem to describe two problems then (?!):
no automatic locking
when manually locking, it doesn’t lock as well, but remains unlocked
?
Sorry! When I said I manually locked ‘it’, I meant the machine! So I locked my user account (system lock), which means the BW extension should have locked at that point but was still unlocked 24 hours later when I unlocked the machine again.
@steviegee …and Sorry, that I misunderstood that so much. But thanks for the clarification. And in general, bugs can be reported on GitHub: Bitwarden · GitHub
I think I have resolved this.
I originally installed Brave from the Fedora Software centre, using a Flatpak from Flathub. (the only visible option).
I have since learned that there is a better way to install Brave, as an RPM, as described here
I uninstalled the flatpak, installed it as per the page above using command line, and now my vault is obeying the settings properly. Hooray!
My theory is that flatpaks are ‘sandboxed’ so BRAVE can’t SEE when the OS goes into ‘system lock’ mode, so it can’t lock when it does as it doesn’t know it has happened.
I thought i would pop back to post the solution in case someone else has the same issue.
thanks