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Wonder828
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2 years ago

Security Fault Found Version 8.9.14 (REALLY!!!)

I have 3 icons to open 1PW. One in the Dock, one in the menu bar and the last one as a browser extension in FireFox. This is a new problem that appeared after the last update. If i open 1PW using the...
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1P_Dave
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2 years ago

Wonder828

The 1Password desktop app and the browser extension communicate with each other using a technology called app integration. App integration allows the app and the browser extension to share the same lock state. There was indeed a bug with version 8.9.14 where app integration was broken which meant that the app and the browser were no longer communicating. As you mentioned, our developers have released a fix for the issue in the latest version of 1Password (8.9.15):

We’ve fixed an issue that caused the connection between the 1Password app and browser extension to fail in browsers other than Safari.

Source: 1Password for Mac Releases

I'm sorry for any frustration that the issue may have caused.

-Dave