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Support for Zen browser
Hi!
There's this new browser called "Zen browser"
It's based on Firefox but the 1password extension doesn't work with the desktop app
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Hello everyone!
Thank you all for the continued feedback! For security reasons, the 1Password desktop app will by default only connect to supported browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Edge and Arc. If you're using a Mac then you can add Zen Browser as an additional browser to the desktop app:
- Open and unlock the 1Password for Mac desktop app.
- Click on 1Password next to the in the menu bar.
- Click Settings.
- Click Browser.
- Click Add Browser and choose your browser from the Applications folder.
Adding additional browsers is currently only available for the Mac and Linux. We're not regularly adding new supported browsers individually since that isn't a long-term and sustainable solution however I've shared your requests to support Zen Browser with our product team. We hope to bring the custom browsers feature to 1Password on other platforms (like Windows) in the future.
For the time being, you may still be able to use 1Password in Zen Browser on your Windows PC but you'll need to unlock it separately from the desktop app using your account password.-Dave
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I just installed the latest 1Password Nightly on Windows and the 'Connect to additional browsers' option finally showed up! Just keep in mind that the browser needs to be installed under 'Program Files', they don't allow browsers installed anywhere else for some reason. But at least it works now.
I just wanted to add my voice here and say that I find it very unfortunate that Zen Browser is still not supported on Windows.
Zen has become my primary browser, and not having proper 1Password support is a real drawback in my daily workflow.
I hope official support for Zen Browser can be prioritized in the near future.- 1P_Dave
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Thank you for the feedback. We're not currently planning to expand support to specific browsers like Zen Browser. Instead, we're working on our additional browsers feature that will allow you to add the browser of your choice to the 1Password for Windows app. We've just started testing the feature in the experimental nightly version of 1Password and we hope to bring it to the beta and then the production version as soon as possible.
-Dave
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I am using 1Password on both Windows and MacOS, having the custom browser feature only on Mac is just sad. Especially when an email reaches my inbox that Perplexities Comet is basically supported on launchday...
By now, after 2 years, this would be the thing pushing me away from 1Password, if it weren't for the other family members on my plan- 1P_Dave
Thank you for the feedback! The additional browsers feature is currently available for macOS and Linux and our team recently gave an update on how things are going with our work on the Windows version of the feature in our Reddit AMA:
Yes! Happy to share that we are on track to make custom browser support available in the Beta channel on Windows in November. It's taken a long time because the feature required a unique trust backend on Windows. 1Password has to be extremely careful with custom browser support: we trust you to decide which web browsers you trust, but the problem is that any process on your PC can pretend to be a something else.
As an example, let's say you add Opera to your list of trusted custom browsers. 1Password needs to be absolutely sure it's really talking to Opera, and not an app that silently replaced Opera or is impersonating it. Otherwise there would be a real risk of leaking all your secure data to any process that asked for it. macOS has a simple way to verify app identity with bundle identifiers, but there's nothing quite like that on Windows. So we built a new trust mechanism from scratch for Windows that uses a combination of heuristics, code-signing, admin privilege checks, and user verification prompts. It's pretty neat and will let us bring other features to Windows that might have needed to be Mac-only in the past.
We hope to share more concrete news as soon as we can.
-Dave
I am also using a lot of browsers in Windows, and using Zen as my primary. I am tired of waiting for this feature - my subscription is expiring in couple of months and if this feature is not implemented by then I will not renew.
- 1P_Dave
Thank you for the feedback, I've shared it with the team internally. 🙂
-Dave
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Hi,
Long time family subscriber here. Actively considering switching away from 1Password for my next subscription cycle as I move my usage to Zen. As a courtesy to long time service provider (1Password) created this community account to leave feedback.
1Password (and password managers in general) are fairly niche service where majority of audince are (at least to some extent) privacy and security oriented. It is true that most of your customers are likely on OSX/Linux or some other forms of Unix-based OS's but life and (more importantly) family drive us to use Windows sometimes. Your audience being privacy and security focused are very likely to stay away from Chromium-based browsers, independent of what your telemetry says, since most of us would have telemetry disabled. Zen has rapidly gained popularity among this audience with exodus from Arc and active development status.
Now to my feedback. To your Product Managers: please try to improve your understanding of your audience and rely less on telemetry data lake, which will be skewed away from privacy-focused crowd. Follow the trends and do research in thematic internet-spheres. To 1P_Blake: I understand you are a community manager and do not own the roadmap but influencing roadmap with community sentiment should be a must. Phrase "It's on the roadmap" means literally nothing if it's not prioritised for upcoming development cycle. As a roadmap owner I can tell you that without strong advocacy it will be forever punted. I would assume yoru customer acquisition trends are very good if your leadership is not worried about retention.
Best of luck, I enjoyed using 1Password while it stayed relevant.
- 1P_Dave
Welcome to the community! By default, 1Password directly supports the most popular browsers such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and more. Each supported browser has to go through a vetting and approval process and this process created a situation where many browsers never had the chance to be added due to the work required and the number of browsers requested by the community.
We've invested in building a feature to allow you to add the browser of your choice to 1Password. This allows you to personally control which browser you use and add to 1Password. The feature is currently available for macOS and Linux and we're actively working to build and release it for Windows as well: Connect additional browsers to the 1Password app
-Dave
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It's been like 2 years now. Very disappointed that Zen is still not supported.
Do we have an update on the timeline or is it just abandoned and nobody cares about bringing the additional browser feature to windows?
- 1P_Blake
Community Manager
Hey TobiasGoetz! The team’s still working on bringing the additional browsers feature to Windows. We don’t have a timeline to share, but it’s still on the roadmap.
+1 please add support for zen browser or additional browsers on windows, it is really annoying
- 1P_Dave
Thank you for the request! 🙂
-Dave
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This issue is not solved and the feature flag for approved browsers have been turned off on mac as well
- 1P_Dave
Thanks for reaching out. You can add an additional browser to 1Password for Mac by following the steps in this guide: Connect additional browsers to the 1Password app
If you're not seeing the option on your Mac then please send an email to support@1Password.com so that our team can help further.
-Dave
Also +1 for Windows+Zen from me
- 1P_Dave
Welcome to the community and thank you for sharing your feature request!
-Dave
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Waiting for several months now to add Zen Browser support.
- 1P_Dave
Thanks for the request! There aren't any plans currently to support Zen Browser directly but our team is working on bringing additional browser support to Windows so that you can add whichever browser you'd like (including Zen Browser) to 1Password.
-Dave
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is there a timeline on when this can be enabled for windows since this functionality is already in mac for adding any browser of my preference?
