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l4kr
2 years agoNew Contributor
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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- SergeyNew Member
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
Moderator
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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- TobiasGoetzNew Contributor
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.
- Uherda10New Contributor
+1 please add support for zen browser or additional browsers on windows, it is really annoying
- 1P_Dave
Moderator
Thank you for the request! 🙂
-Dave
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- akAeextRJPrTkizgHsCKNew Contributor
This issue is not solved and the feature flag for approved browsers have been turned off on mac as well
- 1P_Dave
Moderator
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
- vatril-at-pandataNew Contributor
Also +1 for Windows+Zen from me
- 1P_Dave
Moderator
Welcome to the community and thank you for sharing your feature request!
-Dave
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- E29037CBFrequent Contributor
Waiting for several months now to add Zen Browser support.
- 1P_Dave
Moderator
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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- petergillNew Contributor
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?
- Graf_TecNew Contributor
+1 from me as well.
I also find it very frustrating that my favorite password manager, which I have been using for years, does not support the Zen Browser.
When I was using Arc, it wasn’t a problem — but since I switched to Zen, it is.I saw in the forum that adding additional browsers is currently only available for Mac and Linux, and that supporting browsers individually isn’t sustainable.
What’s the current progress on bringing this feature to Windows?- 1P_Dave
Moderator
Welcome to the community! Our team is working on bringing the additional browsers feature to Windows, I don't have a timeline to share just yet but keep an eye on this thread. 🙂
-Dave
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- akAeextRJPrTkizgHsCKNew Contributor
It has been years already and how this feature is not present is baffling
- rsennaNew Contributor
+1
1Password Team:
You support Arc, a discontinued browser, but do not support Zen...?!
Be aware that many former Arc users are moving to Zen, as you probably already noticed in this thread...- 1P_Dave
Moderator
Thank you for the feedback! Are you using 1Password on a Windows PC or on another platform? I noticed that you mentioned Linux and Mac in other posts, you can add Zen Browser to 1Password on those platforms using this guide: Connect additional browsers to the 1Password app
-Dave
- gshorrNew Contributor
+1 for Zen Browser. Seems the other Zen threads were locked and posts got deleted after someone reported that Comet was custom added to the latest windows nightly build, going against the idea that the old vetting process has been retired.
- speedmasterNew Contributor
One more +1 for this feature. I use Zen on Windows every day at work since it's Firefox based.
Reading the "solution" at the top is really confusing since it's restricted to Mac - and reading about support for Comet having been added to the nightly build is even more confusing.This should be highly prioritized, 1P_Dave. Thanks!
- 1P_Dave
Moderator
Thank you for the feedback! I've shared your request with the team.
-Dave
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