Browser Biometric Approval

Goldwarden implements Bitwarden's browser extensions' biometrics login protocol. This means that you can use Goldwarden to unlock your browser extension using Linux biometrics.

In order to set this up, run: goldwarden setup browserbiometrics or, if you have the flatpak: flatpak run --filesystem=home --command=goldwarden com.quexten.Goldwarden setup browserbiometrics

Then, enable biometrics in your browser extension. This currently only works with browsers that are not running inside of flatpak/snap sandboxes.

Browser extension 2024.04.01 and newer

Since the browser extension now doesn't show the "enable biometrics" button in the settings anymore on Linux, you need to open the browser extension's console, and paste the following 2 lines: bitwardenMain.biometricStateService.setBiometricUnlockEnabled(true) bitwardenMain.biometricStateService.setFingerprintValidated(true) and hit enter.

Firefox

Chrome

Native messaging host, manual setup

Sometimes, automatic detection of your browser might fail. To fix this, create a "nativemessaginghosts" folder, for mozilla based browsers this is in a directory such as: ~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/, ~/.librewolf/native-messaging-hosts/ and so on.

For chromium based browsers, this is a path such as: .config/chromium/NativeMessagingHosts/.

Then, re-run the setup. If this does not work, please file a bug report.