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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 was ecstatic when at glance I saw this issue as resolved. But this was a total let-down. I'm sure every single one in this thread was aware of the Mac-only feature of manually adding Zen browser. This is a Windows issue (Linux to some extent, but fortunately there is a workaround).
Can you please remove the "marked as solution" so we can still push for this feature to be implemented on Windows -- or at the very least add Zen Browser as a trusted browser?
It's surprising that Arc is on this list, seeing as it is closed to being abandoned. You already know that Zen is being actively maintained as open-source, based on Firefox (an already approved browser to your standards).
- 1P_Blake
Community Manager
Hey pillowdiver! Marking a response as a solution doesn’t mean the issue is closed—it's just meant to highlight the most up-to-date answer for anyone coming across the thread.
We won’t be unmarking it, but if anything changes regarding Windows support for custom browsers, we’ll update the Accepted Solution accordingly. 🙂
- 1P_Dave
Moderator
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
1P_Davewe get that having you guys add individual browsers to the allow list is not a long-term solution, but we could really use something in the meantime. If you aren't aware, Arc has been abandoned by The Browser Company and Zen is an active community project with a similar experience. I am quite frustrated that Arc for Windows is not stable and want to switch to Zen, but I literally can't do it because 1Password is being stubborn about allowing the browser. I don't want to have to enter my password every time I use the extension. I use 1Password constantly due to having it both for work and personal use.
Adding Zen to the allow list would be very helpful to those of us who want to switch to Zen on Windows while you work on the feature enabling custom browsers on Windows. This does not seem like a massive ask that there clearly demand for. Zen is clearly a legitimate project. This feels like a strange hill to die on when there is not any indication that the custom browser feature is coming to Windows imminently. We're (mostly) happy paying customers here - can you just throw us a bone while you continue working on the real solution?
- 1P_Dave
Marking a post as a solution to a thread doesn't mean that the issue/request itself is solved or closed. It's a way to highlight the most up-to-date answer for anyone who stumbles onto the thread in the future.
We won’t be unmarking this post since it provides an accurate and up-to-date explanation of where custom browser support is currently at: the team has released custom browser support for the Mac and hopes to release it for Windows in the future but for now you'll need to unlock 1Password in Zen Browser separately from the desktop app using your account password.
The discussion remains open and we'll continue to collect everyone's feedback going forward. As soon as we have more news to share, we'll update the Accepted Solution. 🙂-Dave
1P_Dave I would argue that this is not the most up-to-date answer. For starters this answer is directed towards MAC users with a sentence at the end saying you need to unlock it separately. So the "most up-to-date" answer is:
We do not currently support this in windows. The community has been asking for this for a minimum of 2 years and we have done nothing about it other than so vague answers saying "Its in the backlog" or "We need to do it properly".
I'm sorry for getting annoyed, but the same copy paste answers are not going to cut it. This should be prioritised higher than it currently is since this is a feature that is stopping any users using other browsers than 4 on windows without you having to jump through hoops.
Once again, this is not a solution and marking it as a solution again is frankly insulting. This feature only exists on one of the three desktop platforms 1Password supports and without either 1Password adding support for Zen directly or adding the trusted browser feature to Windows and Linux it just plain isn't a solution for the original post.
This seems crazy to me that you still have not supported more than these 4 browsers on windows??
It basically makes 1password useless for me with Zen browser, which I have just started using. And I'm not basing my browser choice on whether my password manager will support my browser.
I'm far more likely to base my password manager choice on whether it supports the browser I use (aka basically every other decent password manager). Seriously considering cancelling my membership when it comes up for renewal in a few months due to this. It does not seem like a complex thing, especially when this post is over 7 months old and has a huge number of people requesting this support, with no reasons as to why you have not implemented this?
I even created a 1Password community account only to voice my support and request for adding Zen browser to the "trusted" browser list, or at the very least add the same feature from macOS to Windows as well.
At least give us the threshold as to how many users it requires for Zen to have, to gain the status as trusted. Whatever it is, please let us know.
please! +1
Any update ? This thread has been opened 7 months ago
Yet another +1 for Zen Browser. It's genuinely absurd to me that the functionally abandoned, closed source Arc is supported while Zen isn't
+100 for zen browser
Also +1 for Zen Browser Support
+1 on Zen Browser
