Passwords

Sval doesn’t save passwords, and has no list of saved passwords of its own. Your password manager’s extension fills in your sign-ins. The controls below choose that password manager and manage security keys.

Settings › Privacy and protection › Password manager

• The list of password managers offers 1Password, Bitwarden, Dashlane, iCloud Passwords, KeePassXC, LastPass, NordPass, Proton Pass, and None of these. iCloud Passwords shows on macOS and Windows only. None is chosen until you choose one.
• Add extension saves your choice and installs that password manager’s extension from addons.mozilla.org, if it isn’t installed. It reinstalls an extension you removed.
• Save takes the place of Add extension when None of these is chosen. It installs nothing and removes nothing.
• The status line says Adding its extension… while it installs, then Saved. or what went wrong.

Your choice stays on this device and doesn’t sync.

Settings › Privacy and protection › Security keys

• Manage security keys opens the security key manager in a new tab. There you set a hardware security key’s PIN, see and remove the passkeys it holds, and add fingerprints.

The Security keys card shows on macOS and Linux.

When you first set up Sval

The step “Which password manager do you use?” offers the same password managers. Choosing one installs its extension. When you’re importing from another browser, the step also says how to move that browser’s passwords into the password manager you choose.

The extensions button’s notice

When a password manager’s extension couldn’t be installed, the extensions button shows a notice naming the cause: you’re offline, or the download failed.

• Try Again installs the extension again.

Sval also tries again when it starts, and when your connection comes back.

Folders Sval reads for desktop apps

An extension that talks to an app on your computer finds the app through a file the app installs. Sval reads these files from its own folders:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Sval/NativeMessagingHosts
• Linux: ~/.sval/native-messaging-hosts
• Windows: the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sval\NativeMessagingHosts

For every user of a computer, Sval also reads /Library/Application Support/Sval/NativeMessagingHosts on macOS, /etc/sval/native-messaging-hosts on Linux, and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Sval\NativeMessagingHosts on Windows.