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Former Member
4 years ago

1password for firefox refuses to connect to the Linux desktop app

I've tried it with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1password-x-password-manager/ that "Get 1Password for Your Browser" sends me to, as well as https://1password.com/browsers/beta/firef...
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Former Member
4 years ago

so, after going down https://1password.community/search?adv=1&search=NativeMessagingHosts&title=&author=&cat=75&subcats=1&tags=&discussion_discussion=1&comment_comment=1 based on https://1password.community/discussion/129789/browser-desktop-integration-vivaldi-on-linux-doesnt-work mention, it turns out https://1password.community/discussion/comment/608683/#Comment_608683` was the secret sauce, although the error message was aggressively unhelpful

    Additional error context: Failed to verify browser permissions

It seems by "browser permissions," they mean that the binary must be chown 0:0 -- having it owned by your UID causes the extension to silently nope out

How hard would it have been to say that in the logs, or for heaven's sakes to include something helpful in the "Browser" settings panel that says "oh, we saw your connection from firefox-bin but it's currently owned by user 1000 and we require it to be owned by 0" or even "we rejected a browser connection, please check $HOME/.config/1Password/logs/BrowserSupport for more details"

So much waste of human capital