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l4kr
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2 years 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...
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linux
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  • 1P_Dave's avatar
    1P_Dave
    10 months ago

    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: 

    1. Open and unlock the 1Password for Mac desktop app.
    2. Click on 1Password next to the  in the menu bar.
    3. Click Settings.
    4. Click Browser.
    5. 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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xfallme
New Contributor
28 days 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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    22 days 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