Re: (Repeat.) Please give pgAdmin 4 its own GUI. The constant password inputs are driving me insane...

(sorry about the last missive - continued)

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 3:38 PM richard coleman <rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Darren,
>
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 3:03 PM Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>
> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried using more than one browser?
>> that's what I've taken to doing, I have a separate install of Chromium
>> just for pgAdmin4. I've even changed the browser command to
>
> "chromium-browser %URL% " so that it starts with the right browser.

Although not all browsers are apparently equal. Back on 2019-06-19
04:10:13 Khushboo Vashi <khushboo(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote
in response to an issue I was having under Chromium;

> "I would suggest, try a different browser as well as Chromium is not the
> supported browser for pgAdmin."

Which suggests that there is *a supported browser* for pgAdmin4. This begs
the question, if there's only a *single* supported browser, what exactly is
the point of a web app? It's like web sites that only worked
correctly under IE6.

Developing pgAdmin4 as a *web app*/*web server* thing might make sense from
a development standpoint, but personally I think it introduces way more
problems than it solves.

just my $0.02.

> Load pgAdmin and/or a small number of secured things you want to stay
>> logged in
>> for longer periods, while do your majority of activities or the ones
>> you'd want
>> to clear your browser for in others.
>>
>> I for example have Safari plus Firefox plus Chrome and compartmentalize
>> my
>> activity between them, and they're all mutually isolated.
>>
>> -- Darren Duncan
>>
>> On 2019-07-27 5:54 a.m., tutiluren(at)tutanota(dot)com wrote:
>> > Sorry for repeating this, but the only replies I got were unrelated to
>> what I
>> > typed, instead briefly discussing master passwords.
>> >
>> > Every single day, even after getting rid of the "master password"
>> nonsense
>> > (which was a nightmare in itself), pgAdmin keeps asking me, again
>> and again,
>> > to enter the password when I try to connect to my servers. This is
>> cleared
>> > every single time I clear my browser data, which is an absolute
>> necessity
>> > multiple times a day.
>> >
>> > I don't want pgAdmin to have anything to do with my browser, and
>> dealing
>> > with multiple "profiles" is very impractical and tedious to set up.
>> I don't
>> > want them connected whatsoever. Please make a proper GUI that is
>> entirely
>> > separate from your "normal browser", allowing it to remember
>> passwords and
>> > not constantly forget them because it's attached to your normal
>> browser's data.
>> >
>> > The GUI can be an embedded browser and has no need whatsoever for
>> constant
>> > security updates because all it does is load pgAdmin 4's code. It
>> doesn't
>> > need to be able to do anything else, nor should it be able to. It
>> shouldn't
>> > even be apparent to the user that it's a browser at all -- it
>> should just
>> > open a GUI window with pgAdmin 4 inside of it -- not rely on my
>> browser
>> > environment.
>> >
>> > I almost recall that this actually was done in the past. Why you
>> would
>> > abandon this idea is inexplicable to me, since "just using the
>> normal
>> > browser" causes so many annoying problems.
>> >
>> >
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