I haven’t tried it myself, but there is an “iCloud Passwords” plug-in for Chrome /Chromium browsers (and I believe Firefox).
See x.com (Ricky Mondello is an Apple employee who has worked on iCloud Keychain and the passwords app.)
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I don’t think there is currently an extension for Firefox that works with Sequoia’s Passwords.app. The iCloud Passwords Firefox extension is for Sonoma.
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I haven’t tested this since upgrading to Sequoia, but it should work. There’s also a Firefox extension mentioned.
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Well, I use it in Arc (which is mammoth elegance laid over Chrome), and the extension and app work just fine there.
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Sequoia 15.0.1 broke my music server (Firestream). You want to talk about unforgivable sins?
;~}
------Later:
Tried FireStream under the latest beta Sequoia 15.1 where it worked with no issues.
Rebooted into 15.0.1 and, of course, FireStream now works. It hadn’t for a couple of days of trouble-shooting.
See previous Chagrinned Sheepish Smiley above.
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So you were able to go back to 15.0.1 from 15.1 on the same installation?? Or you are running separate instances?
The 15.1 beta is on an external SSD.
But it got weirder. This morning it is broken again. My Mac Studio does not sleep. It is running two servers (would be three, if I could ever get CalDAV to work). What the…?
15.0.1 could be Monterey again.
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Ironic that having finally just thrown up my hands and given up on Apple fixing local syncing, I install Sequoia, and immediately run into other issues that would have been deal breakers, if I had bothered to test them on my external drive.
Two, at least, appear fixed in the beta 15.1. Has anyone heard anything reliable about its release date (before I get fed up and back up to Monterey)?
Thanks.
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Instead, they “fix” things that aren’t broken. Calculator is a mess.
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What did Apple do to it?! Incorrect results? 
Apple really needs to stop doing its yearly releases, stop rushing, and do a better job.
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A slightly unnerving Sequoia issue:
In “System Settings / General / Login Items & Extensions” I have an app that is flagged as “Item from unidentified developer.” It is named “env” and the little Magnifying Glass icon says it is located in “/usr/bin.”
Does this seem a little contrary to all of Apple’s current admonishing about signed apps, etc., or was it just better in the past when Apple didn’t show us this stuff?
;~}
I’m really surprised you upgraded before getting the go-ahead from the makers of your audio equipment. I thought that was standard procedure in the audio engineering world.
Can’t you downgrade those systems back to Sonoma until your audio equipment suppliers provide Sequoia support?
/usr/bin/env is a small helper utility that’s part of all Unix distributions. It pulls in a copy of the local shell environment and then launches the command-line utility (typically an interpreter like Python) described by its parameters.
I’m sure that this error is being flagged because the command launched by env or the (Python?) application run by the command launched by env is not signed. If you can identify the script in question to determine where it came from, the answer may reveal itself.
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David,
It is not their problem, it is Apple’s. As I said, it is fixed in 15.1 beta.* I had been so preoccupied with Ventura through Sequoia breaking local Calendar/Contact syncing that I didn’t look at anything else. I had been trying to keep those test volumes as simple as possible to narrow down what was going on with syncing.
Likewise, the “env” issue doesn’t appear in 15.1 either. I was “pretty sure” it was OK, but rather glaring on Apple’s part.
But thanks for the reassurance.
*However, damned if I am ever going to put a beta on my internal drive again, no matter what Apple Support wants me to do.
The next click you hear is me wiping my internal drive and restoring Monterey (again).
But seriously, thank you for what were useful observations. I am sorry this thread has devolved somewhat. But for my part, seriously, the two major reasons I have so much invested in the “Apple Ecosystem” are broken.
Are you trying to do this the old fashioned way by syncing with a cable or on your LAN? If so, I hate to say it, but I think you have to give that up. Apple may still formally support it, but I think the days on it may be numbered. There’s a ton of tech that goes into doing sync right: keeping changes small and atomic; resolving conflicts; defining a source of truth… and while I think they’ve put industrial grade logic into doing that right (but not perfectly) with iCloud, I think their LAN/cable sync logic may not have improved much over the past 15 years.
And then there’s simply the fact that it’s so much less convenient to have to manually sync everything, especially if you have a bunch of devices, or if you spend a lot of time on the go, away from your main Mac.
I know that people prefer either the privacy of keeping their data out of the cloud, or the cost savings. And there are people who do personal clouds with some success. One close friend uses Synology as the center of his private cloud mass storage. Other friends use Plex for their video, etc. I’ve dabbled with them all, and it’s just hard to get all that right and keep it running, and you still still won’t end up with all your data everywhere the way Apple has pulled it off.
I’m rambling, and I made an assumption, which may be wrong, so I’ll stop.
Yes, thanks, but I have considered all that. That is why I installed Sequoia. I gave up. Essentially, I went out an bought a “DayTimer.” I am no longer relying on Apple to “sync” this.
Yes, so in 2014 I bought a Mac Mini for the sole purpose of running MacOS Server’s CalDAV. Then Apple abandoned Server. I gave the Mac Mini to my brother.
If I was still a self-employed photographer all of this cloud stuff would have made client interactions so much easier. But I am not.
It seems patently ridiculous that it is easier or more secure for Apple to sync to some data center thousands of miles away (which may or may not be running Apple hardware or code), rather than syncing two pieces of hardware 3 feet apart, built by Apple, running Apple code. There has to be a lot of overlapping code, it’s still CalDAV basically?
The last thing I want is all my data everywhere. Putting all my stuff in the cloud gets me nothing, except putting my data on a site with a big target on it. Hacking my one Mac is not a big payoff.
And I think I mentioned the fact that it idled four rooms of audio equipment?
Not surprisingly, at this point, reverting macOS gets harder EVERY F’ING time.
Well you have my empathy about this. I’ve been burned by Apple bricking my production setups in the past.
Well, the good news is reverting was actually pretty easy. (Finding the simple instructions was the hard part). Now here comes the embarrassing part…
The answer was make a bootable installer, of course. So I reach for the handiest USB thumb drive in the drawer, plug it in and discover it was ALREADY a bootable Monterey installer from the last time I had to do it…
Then (at midnight) it announced it was going to take 3 hours - it took 20 minutes.
:-}
I think everyone knows my feelings on discussions that devolve into general whining about Apple. I’ve just deleted everything that doesn’t discuss specific issues with Sequoia, and I’m closing the topic.
Aside from not whining, please create specific topics that have a chance of staying on topic.
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