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Quick menu setting for default action
There are a number of threads on this but I guess not enough for 1Password to consider this worth doing. For a host of reasons, many having to do with security, I do not want my browsers able to acce...
1P_Dave
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ModeratorHello jimmyjayp! 👋
Thank you for the feedback! Are you referring to copying a password when selecting an item from Quick Access? If you are then you can copy a password from Quick Access by pressing Command-Shift-C on your keyboard. Would that work for your needs?
Could you tell me a little more about the security concerns that you're referring to? It's generally considered to be much more secure to use 1Password in the browser or Universal Autofill to fill your passwords into browsers and other apps rather than copying those passwords to the clipboard and then pasting them into a website or app. There are a couple of reasons for this:
- When you copy a password to the system clipboard it becomes available for other apps and processes on your Mac to read and save. Passwords copied to the system clipboard exist outside of 1Password's encryption and security architecture.
- 1Password is deliberately designed to only ever fill your login credentials into websites that match the website address saved in the Login item in 1Password and into browsers/apps with a valid code signature. This provides protection from phishing since it reduces the risk of you entering a password into a malicious website or app that is pretending to be the legitimate website that you're trying to login to.
-Dave
