Why am I now on 'new' 1Pass extension and not classic?

Hi @ag_chantelle! :)

The 1Password classic extension is no longer receiving development updates.

Hopefully the classic extension will not disappear in the near future. ;)

although I don't think it will be in the near future

I hope it will disappear only if the 1Password extension in the browser is working together with the Windows desktop app. ;)

Thanks for clarification @ag_yaron ! :+1:

I've been trying to use the new extension and have had to go back to classic for a better experience. I've never really used the new extension on Mac, but I'm trying on Windows Edge.

It's not worth going into too many details unless the classic extension is going to be removed in the near term. If it is a long way off, then, by that time, the new extension will likely be much better. I'm used to 1Password software to look pleasing and be frictionless. The new extension is not that.

I didn't think this would be the correct venue, but I'm happy to help. Just so you know, I'm a big fan of your company and products. I've used 1Password for years (since 2007) and I've been a family subscriber from the moment you introduced that service.

To preface things, your Safari extension in iOS caused me to panic. On iOS, 1Password is convenient to use in web browsers as well as other apps; it's easily integrated into iOS as the password manager. Therefore, the browser extension on iOS has no role that I can think of, but you still introduced it. That gave me this nagging feeling you were heading down the google-ish road of "the browser is everything". That's when I decided to check on these forums for any evidence that the classic extensions for computers were going away. I found this thread.

So, I've just reinstated the new extension on Edge to remind myself of some issues. Here are the first things that bothered me.

I don't want the extension to modify the look of the page. I particularly dislike having the drop-down appear on field focus. A web page designer spends quite a bit of effort on delivering a particular look and feel; The extension is a distraction from that. Even with the field focus trigger turned off, I'm still left with your icon inside the fields when they have focus. Be gone! As a web developer, I'd be pretty pissed with you for screwing with my page. Just because a user is typing in a username or password field doesn't mean they need or want assistance.

So, I figured I'd try to ignore the icon in the fields and just use the extension button at the top of the window. But, that button doesn't seem to know which site I'm on, so it doesn't select the entry that matches the website. Well, that's no good. Even if it provided website detection, the popup window is not resizable and the fonts and general layout is too spacious for the available room.

I have many vaults. I don't want them all presented when I'm working in the browser, just the one that I consider my main vault. The drop-downs on the fields always show all vaults; that gives me a ton of duplicates for certain websites. To work around this, I had to redefine "All Vaults" to mean just my one regular vault. Rats.

The extension button does respect the vault selection you make. But, every time you restart the browser the setting reverts to "All Vaults". Double rats.

The extension icon is poorly done. The gray outer circle is jagged looking. I have a lot of extensions in the various browsers I use; yours is the only one that looks unfinished.

If you think this is all good and that this new extension is production ready, I'll move to full-on panic. Will I expect such unsatisfactory work from your upcoming Electron app?

most browser users (without a password manager) use and love their browser's built-in password manager and autofill suggestions.

You should make your in-field icon much smaller and not in color. Perhaps you're following an example of some browser's built-in password manager. Is there one which makes their indicator so pronounced? I just checked Safari on the Mac; it's pretty simple and elegant.

You can also turn the 1Password icon off inside fields completely by going into the extension's settings and turning off all options under the "Autofill" section, but that would just make this extension identical to the 1Password Classic extension in its functionality and that would be a step back in user experience and functionality.

Then I misunderstood the language "Offer to fill and save passwords". The classic extension puts no icon in the fields yet still offers the ability to detect and save passwords. Is that possible with the new extension?

The extension definitely knows which page you're on. If you're not getting any suggestions, then you have no login items that contain that URL in them.

That's a reasonable assumption, but not applicable to my testing. I was testing against the main login page of my bank. That's probably the number one site I use 1Password on.

I'll say this - This morning, after reboot, the extension button was recognizing the site. Then, I activated the classic extension and used it a bit to compare the two. I then deactivated it and restarted Edge. It then failed to recognize the website I'm on. Perhaps, after removing the classic extension (which I had been using right up until I did my post), a reboot is required or some process has to be killed. So it might be just a bug that was exposed during the testing I did for my post.

Right-click the extension icon -> Settings -> Scroll to the bottom and turn off any vault you don't want to show up in the extension. It will also hide it from "All Vaults" view and will not suggest any items from within that vault. This change is permanent and will not revert back after restarting.

From your answer, I can see that I wasn't clear in my explanation. I don't want any of my vaults removed from "All Vaults". I want to set the extension to use a particular vault. Then, I want to be easily able to show all vaults when I want to. Perhaps this extension changes the definition of "All Vaults"; it's a well-defined notion shared by the desktop application and the classic extension. You shouldn't do that.

The classic extension makes it trivial to set a default vault and switch quickly; one of the choices when switching is "All Vaults". The new extension makes it awkward to switch vaults. The design of the new extension seems to be unaware of the sophisticated multi-vault offering and the flexibility it gives users.