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Former Member
3 years ago

Firefox extension on macOS does not auto-unlock

Hi all, Despite following all of the guidance at https://support.1password.com/connect-1password-browser-app/, my 1Password extension in Firefox on macOS is unable to auto-unlock when the desktop ...
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Former Member
3 years ago

To help others:
The root cause of my problem seems to be that my Firefox app is (intentionally) located within my user's Applications folder ( /Users/<username>/Applications/Firefox.app ), rather than the system Applications folder ( /Applications/Firefox.app ). This was causing the 1Password Firefox extension to be unable to connect with the 1Password desktop app. Starting Firefox from the system Applications folder does not exhibit the problem.