Add smart card support to general browser

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Hi

After another Windows bug that nearly made all work file gone, I finally convinced my mother to switch to Linux on her work laptop. I wanted to install Aurora, but there is a problem: she uses smart cards for accessing italian public administration websites. I saw a thread here that talked about passing the card reader to a browser (Firefox, but can also be Chrome): Smartcard access for native Firefox - #5 by m2Giles

I tested this afternoon, but even after following that guide, Floorp (Firefox-based) says ā€œimpossible to load moduleā€, even by passing the module by hand. Do you have any suggestions?

Floorp is flatpak package, and I passed xdg-run/p11-kit/pkcs11 to custom files

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I am having the same issue in firefox, tried the same steps, even tried Microsoft Edge and it is not working either. I have an Identiv SCR3500 A usb card reader. Iā€™m trying to access RHCE training that I can get for free through work, but their systems are too locked down to me to follow along in a lab, so I need to do it on my personal machine.

It would be nice if this functionality could be added, I even tried to layer a few of the pcsc packages on top, including pcsc-perl.

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A workaround (maybe also reported in the post I linked) is to install an appimage browser. I chose ungoogled-chromium for that

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