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l4kr
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1 year ago
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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 1Password Version: Not Provided Extension Version: N...
browser extension
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linux
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windows
  • 1P_Dave's avatar
    1P_Dave
    1 month ago

    Hello folks, 

    I'm happy to share that you can now add Zen Browser as an additional browser to 1Password for Windows. Follow these steps: 

    1. Install 1Password in Zen Browser from the Firefox Browser Add-ons Store
    2. Add Zen Browser as an additional browser to 1Password: Connect additional browsers to the 1Password app


    A couple of notes:

    • Make sure that Zen Browser is installed system-wide with admin permissions in the C:\Program Files folder.
    • Zen Browser is not an officially supported browser and you might run into unexpected issues. If you see those same issues with a supported browser like Firefox then let us know by starting a new discussion and we can investigate.


    -Dave

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xfallme
New Contributor
2 months ago

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

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    1P_Dave
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    2 months ago

    xfallme​ 

    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