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Trminator
July 4, 2023
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"Received from the native core" since most recent Update

  • July 4, 2023
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Hi,
since the most recent release of 1Password's Chrome Extension (2.12.0 and newer) my Extension is unable to connect to the desktop App, ONLY from the Chrome Portable I use. My "normal" Chrome installation (both are Version 114.0.5735.199 (Official Build) (64-bit)) works fine, still. For debugging sake, I also tried changing to the BETA Channel of the extension build, same result though. Could this be looked into, and fixed, please?


1Password Version: 1Password for Windows 8.10.9 (81009012)
Extension Version: 1Password in the browser 2.12.0 (2.13.0 as well)
OS Version: Windows 10 22H2 19045.3155
Browser: Chrome Portable

16 replies

ag_mike_d
1Password Employee
January 23, 2024

Hello @Trminator,

Please excuse the delayed response.

We have no further news to share about when this extended support for trusted browsers will reach Windows. Please keep an eye on the thread below for new details as they become available:
* Extending support for trusted web browsers — 1Password Community

We're sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.

Trminator
TrminatorAuthor
January 30, 2024

Hi @ag_mike_d,

I don't really get this... the functionality was working fine in 8.10.8, so, I would consider this a regression/bug, rather than a new feature that I'd happily wait for?
Access to the standalone App's passwords from Google Chrome portable (any version of the browser extension, even current Beta build, which I am currently using) WORKS, as long as the standalone App is Version 8.10.8 or older, but stops working with 8.10.9 or newer...
So, yea, the "inconvenience" is that I have not been able to keep up with upgrades to the standalone app since July, 2023, and I'm sure there's some security fixes in that changelog, since then? :((

ag_mike_d
1Password Employee
February 1, 2024

Hello again @Trminator,

I do apologize for any frustration this causes and I can certainly understand how important is to keep 1Password for Windows up to date. I've passed your additional feedback along to the team by way of our tracked issue.

Access to the standalone App's passwords from Google Chrome portable (any version of the browser extension, even current Beta build, which I am currently using) WORKS, as long as the standalone App is Version 8.10.8 or older, but stops working with 8.10.9 or newer...

As previously mentioned, the issue here lies with the app needing to verify where the browser is located on the drive. With your current setup, this is not possible.

The team continues to focus on extending support for trusted web browsers, which we're hoping will help long term for customers using this type of setup or other currently unsupported browsers.

We appreciate your continued patience.

ref: dev/core/core#23060

Trminator
TrminatorAuthor
February 1, 2024

Well, the Browser-Extension could just "tell" the standalone App, where it "thinks" it is located, and the App could then either ASK me, the USER, to verify, that I am running that browser, and want to access my PWs, or check on disk, on that path given? ... either way, it can be verified that the correct browser is talking to the standalone app, without involving huge amounts of development work?!

ag_mike_d
1Password Employee
February 2, 2024

@Trminator - I've passed this additional feedback along to the team. Thanks again!

Trminator
TrminatorAuthor
September 26, 2025

Well, isn't this a reminder from the past...
Well, I have, since originally submitting this issue, 3 years ago, actually changed laptops, and am running an up-to-date standalone version of the 1PW-App, again, with the mentioned and known downside, that my Chrome- Portable and Firefox-Portable (or rather, the 1Password-Extensions in those) can't access the Standalone Apps' passwords...).

Is there any plan of getting this fixed, still? (Either via whitelisting Extensions/Browsers via User-Interaction and key-exchanges, or some other way?)

Best Regards from Berlin,
Michael

1P_Dave
1Password Employee
September 26, 2025

@Trminator 

Thanks for following up. 1Password verifies where the browser is located on the drive for security reasons before connecting to it. This isn't something that the team is planning to change at the moment. Chrome Portable also appears to be an unofficial and modified version of Chrome, only the official release from Google is supported. 

It's possible that the additional browser feature that we're building for Windows, which allows you to add unsupported browsers to the 1Password for Windows desktop app, might help here but the feature is still being built and this would need to be tested once the feature is built and released.

-Dave

Issue=GA-92075