The privacy.services
property contains privacy-related settings controlling services offered by the browser or by third parties. Each property is a types.BrowserSetting
object.
Properties
passwordSavingEnabled
- A
types.BrowserSetting
object whose underlying value is a boolean. Iftrue
, the browser's password manager will offer to store passwords when the user enters them. Defaults totrue
.
Browser compatibility
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Firefox for Android | Opera | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
passwordSavingEnabled | Yes | No | 56 | 56 | Yes |
Examples
Disable the password manager if possible.
function onSet(result) { if (result) { console.log("success"); } else { console.log("failure"); } } var getting = browser.privacy.services.passwordSavingEnabled.get({}); getting.then((got) => { console.log(got.value); if ((got.levelOfControl === "controlled_by_this_extension") || (got.levelOfControl === "controllable_by_this_extension")) { var setting = browser.privacy.services.passwordSavingEnabled.set({ value: false }); setting.then(onSet); } else { console.log("Not able to set passwordSavingEnabled"); } });
Acknowledgements
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.privacy
API.