Support for Orion Browser

Hey all. Thanks for all the requests for Orion support. As we've said earlier in the thread, we've have been motivated by this feedback to work on a feature that will make it possible to allow any browser you trust to connect securely to the desktop app. It's getting close to ship, and I have a new post that goes into more detail about how it works: https://1password.community/discussion/140735/extending-support-for-trusted-web-browsers#latest.

However, even with this new setting, we've found that Orion is not currently compatible with the 1Password extension. Trying to load the Chrome extension (both mv2 and mv3) leads to unrecoverable errors in network requests and other low-level APIs. Here's an example of some errors in basic cryptography operations we saw which prevented the extension from even loading:

We are a bit surprised to see these kinds of errors since the 1Password extension is fully compatible with the web API and Web Extensions spec, and it works across Chrome(-ium), Firefox, and Safari. Our understanding from the Orion team was that compatibility wouldn't be an issue, and all we had to do was change our policy. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.

We'd of course like to see 1Password work everywhere, which is why we've invested in the new setting to add trusted browsers. But it's a much bigger lift to invest in specific compatibility changes for a single browser, especially if we don't know how extensive those changes will be. We're sharing our findings with the Orion team and will post an update in the forums when we find out more.

-Mitch

Hey @1P_Mitch ,

Thank you for keeping us posted.

It makes sense then that you should get in touch with @vprelovac .
It is a well-known fact and this thread had many messages about it in previous pages, that Vlad and Orion developers tried to contact you to work on 1Password support in Orion, but to no avail.
Now's the time!

I hope a solution can be found soon and this feature be available.

Best regards,
Charlie

@1P_Mitch Thanks for the update! Hopefully with your report Orion can do some work on their side.

once 1Password finally does their job and rolls out the update, it’ll be on Orion to patch any compatibility issues (assuming 1P’s extension is fully Web Extensions compatible). but 1P still hasn’t rolled out the update, and previously hasn’t cooperated with Orion’s team, so regardless of those errors it’s still currently on 1P to release this long-promised update.

@1P_Mitch good to hear, thanks for the update! 👍

Thank you for the update. This is progress, and I'm looking forward to when this issue will finally be closed 👍

Vlad from Orion here, just want to post a quick update. I can confirm that 1Password contacted us today with the news of extended support that should include Orion, but there are still some compatibility issues. Our team will be looking into this as soon as we receive the test builds from 1Password. We are looking forward to working with them to resolve these and hopefully the next version of Orion (0.99.125) will ship with full 1Password support.

More great news—thanks @vprelovac !

Great, finally!!

Excellent news, Vlad. Keeping an eye on this. I will give your browser and search engine a shot as soon as this gets resolved.