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Former Member
4 years agoSupport for Orion Browser
Please add support for the Orion browser. It needs explicit signature verification from 1Password to work. Otherwise, it should work out of the box.
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Former Member
4 years agoI just want to second this request and note that @hakusaro's experience here is the same one I've had, namely:
- The 1Password X extension can't autofill on any websites; and
- The 1Password X extension can sometimes take a really long time to load (1-3 mintues).
One of our devs have taken a quick look at Orion and saw it is a Safari web view with the extensions API implemented in it, so it is basically a big mesh of different pieces of software bundled up into a web view window.
@ag_yaron This is not correct. Orion runs a custom build of WebKit that includes support for the WebExtension API. To quote Orion's FAQ:
And extensions! Unlike Safari, Orion has native support for both Chrome and Firefox extensions. This gives our users access to the largest extensions ecosystem in the world. With Orion, you can one-click install your favorite extensions directly from the web.
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How does Orion support extensions?
Early in development, we decided to natively support the Web Extensions API, the same API that Chrome and Firefox use to make their extension ecosystems so powerful. We had to port in hundreds of APIs, one by one, that were never meant to work with WebKit. Took us a few years, but here we are!Orion currently supports about 70% of Web Extensions APIs, and we add more every day. On top of that, we built advanced security features that give our users granular control beyond what Chrome and Firefox offer. For example, you can choose to allow an extension to run only on certain websites.
As such Orion should be able to support the 1Password X extension, but the extension doesn't work as it's supposed to. From what anyone has been able to gather the problem does not seem to be with Orion's implementation of the WebExtension API, but instead because Orion is not approved by 1Password.
It'd be great if you could have your devs look into why the extension doesn't work as intended.
To recap
- The 1Password browser extensions don't work in Orion.
- The WebExtension APIs are supported in Orion — the same APIs used by Firefox and Chrome to run browser extensions.
- The problem seems to be with the 1Password extensions, not lack of support for the APIs used by the 1Password browser extensions.
@ag_yaron and @ag_ana please ask your devs to take a closer look. Based on what everyone has seen adding support for Orion in an updated version of the browser extensions should not be a complicated matter. If that's not the case, please let us (or better yet the Orion team) know what has to be improved so 1Password can support Orion.