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5 years agoBrowser extension won't open in Firefox
For a few weeks now, 1Password will occasionally refuse to open. Clicking on the icon in my toolbar does nothing. It seems to happen when I launch Firefox, and I thought the only way to fix it was to...
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5 years ago@ag_yaron,
My https://1password.community/discussion/comment/617269/#Comment_617269 was about allowing the 1Password extension to "Run in Private Windows". This is completely (AFAIK; I'm not familiar with the internals of Firefox) separate from the global (affecting the entire browser, not per-extension) "History" setting. As I'm sure you're aware, one determines whether or not an extension can run in private browsing windows and the other (specifically the "Always use private browsing mode" checkbox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/private-browsing-use-firefox-without-history#w_can-i-set-firefox-to-always-use-private-browsing) forces the entire browser to constantly be in private browsing mode (or at least something equivalent).
Here are screenshots of the two settings, as they display on my desktop computer:
Run in Private Windows
History/Always use private browsing mode
As you can see, I do not have "Always use private browsing mode" enabled (and never have). My "History" settings are the same between my computers.
My previous statement, slightly reformulated: I would like to be able to use the 1Password extension (in normal browser windows) without allowing it to "Run in Private Windows". I can't imagine the "Run in Private Windows" permission is required to access localStorage, but I may very well be wrong.