Hi FOSS community,
I’m running a Nextcloud Server on my home network. I love this setup as I don’t want to have to worry about exposing my Nextcloud to the public internet.
However, as my server in on a local IP address (E.g. 192.168.0.8 ) I am using a self-signed certificate for secure authentication between my client browser and the server.
Here lies this issue… self-signed certificates are not going to work soon (from what I heard) as Google Chrome are discontinuing Manifest 2.0 and forcing everyone to Manifest 3.0. This change will prevent Self-Sign Certificates from working as they do now.
This is Google’s response to resolving a bug/vulnerability in Chrome’s Manifest 2.0. (see here - Chromium ). This change will be rolled out to ALL other Chrome derivatives such as:- Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi etc.
My favourite cross browser bookmark Sync tool on Nextcloud is called Floccus ( https://floccus.org/ ). It has stopped using Manifest 2.0 (in anticipation for the upcoming change) and hence no longer works with all my Chrome browsers. It only works with Firefox now.
So, my question to this community is… (I know it’s a long shot) …
Q. Is anyone aware of any Chrome browser plugin that connects to a local server using a Self-Signed Certificate that works with Manifest 3.0?
The developer of Floccus would like to see how other Chrome plugin developers have worked around this.
WARNING: For those using Nextcloud on a local hosted server with a self-signed certificate, this is going o impact your browser plugins once Chrome is updated.