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bspachman
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

macOS Application/Extension Clarification (& possible Quick Access bug)

Hi there-- I'm slowly starting my migration to 1P v8. I tried a few of the early versions, but the experience was not refined yet (compared to what my family has been used to with 1P7 and earlier ...
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bspachman
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

Dave, thanks for the quick turn-around and answers. Some follow-ups...

It looks like 1P Mini (the menu bar app) is dead, right? Is there any compelling reason to keep the 1P menubar item in the menu bar?

I recommend that you leave the menu bar icon turned on since it allows 1Password to continue running in the background so that you have access to features like Quick Access, Universal AutoFill, and integration to the browser extension even if 1Password's main window is closed.

Understood. I'll never use the menu bar icon now that 1P Mini is gone (RIP), so that's what utilities like Bartender are for :-)

Confirming that in order to use the old standard CMD-\ for autofilling passwords in various browsers (I rotate between Safari, Brave, Orion, and Arc) that the proper extension still needs to be installed on each browser? The main app doesn't really have anything to do with this, right?

Installing 1Password into each browser will give you the best experience when it comes to saving and filling both passwords and passkeys in each browser. You can find the modern extension here: Get 1Password for your browser. However, you can also fill passwords into browsers (and other Mac apps) that don't have the extension installed by using 1Password's Universal Autofill feature: Use Universal Autofill in apps and browsers on your Mac

I think you've muddied the waters a bit for me here. After carefully reading the "Use Universal Autofill" page you linked to, it seems like I DON'T need the browser extension(s) installed in order to use 1P--CMD-\ will work as it always has.

So...what are the browser extension(s) for? Is there a table with feature comparisons between the extension and Universal AutoFill? I'm not entirely clear what you mean when you say that the browser extensions give you 'the best experience'. It feels like 2 ways of accomplishing the same thing to me.

Perhaps I'm fighting decades of 1P experience--I'm not certain if I was a v1 user, but I certainly found notes in my archives that I started using 1P no later than 2009--maybe v2? :-)

Thanks for your insight!
brad