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2 years ago

App and browser integration?

I use 1Password at home and at work, and neither place does the browser integration unlock with the app like it's supposed to.

Now, I know I'm not exactly using the most common configuration here. This is more a post to see if anyone else has gotten it to work than a complaint. At both work and home, I run the KDE desktop, wayland, and the Vivaldi browser. The only real difference is I use Fedora at work and Arch at home. Unfortunately, between the 4 or so devices that makes up, none of them can unlock the browser extension automatically. I've tried cycling both the app and extension, but the extension always just says,
"Problem connecting. ⬤ Please make sure the 1Password app is unlocked."
I can't actually copy paste that, so I typed it by hand. Also, the circle has a color, but I'm colorblind and I'm not sure what color it is...

Anyway, love 1Pass, but this has been bugging me for weeks now so I figured I'd ask around and see if anyone knew a way to fix it.

1Password Version: 8.10.16
Extension Version: 2.16
OS Version: Arch Linux
Browser: Vivaldi

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  • FrankyO1P's avatar
    FrankyO1P
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    2 years ago

    Hi @Eragon615,

    Thanks so much for writing in! On Linux, 1Password checks browsers against a baked-in list of supported browsers, and only connects to those browsers. However, it is possible to add Vivaldi to a list of custom supported browsers, and this will let 1Password in your browser connect to the 1Password desktop app. Here's how to do it:

    1. Open a terminal, and run sudo mkdir /etc/1password (if you've done this already, you can skip it).
    2. Run cd /etc/1password.
    3. Run sudo nano custom_allowed_browsers.
    4. Feel free to use your preferred text editor in place of nano
    5. Paste in the appropriate browser binary name - such as opera or in this case vivaldi-bin.
    6. Save the file - in Nano, this is done by Ctrl+x -> y -> Enter
    7. In terminal, run sudo chown root:root /etc/1password/custom_allowed_browsers && sudo chmod 755 /etc/1password/custom_allowed_browsers
    8. Run 1Password - it will read our new config file and make the appropriate connections.

    Let me know how that goes or if you have any questions.

    Franky