A few dumb questions immediately after installing 1Password 8 on Mac

I see the answer to my first dumb question is in the top thread....I should have uninstalled 1P7 first.....does it matter that I have done it later. Is this related to why I am not seeing 1Password for Safari in Safari prefs? (only the 7.8.7 one)

Hey @mikebore 👋

Happy to help! I'll go ahead and respond to your questions in line so we keep things organized. :)

Can I uninstall 1Password 7? if so what is preferred way?

You can remove 1Password 7 by dragging the app from /Applications to the Trash. Be sure to empty your Trash after that. If you run into any issues, let me know and I'll walk you through it.

I have now have three apps in my Application folder: "1Password 7", "1 Password" (which is 8) and "1Password for Safari" version 2.0.6. How do I use the last one? I think the last one appeared after I used "Get 1Password for your browser" in 1P8 prefs. The install process led to small screen telling me to Open Safari Prefs and turn on the 1P for Safari extension, but there is no 1P for Safari extension there. It also said to turn off any old ones so I have unchecked the 1P 7.8.7 extension which was there.

1Password for Safari is our newest browser extension in Safari. You'll use it by enabling 1Password for Safari within Safari's Preferences. Here's what mine looks like, as an example –

If you still don't see 1Password for Safari listed in Safari's Preferences, try removing 1Password 7 first, then restart Safari and check again.

Is there a way of showing item counts in the main window?

As of now, there's not. I could see how that could help some folks out, though. Are you thinking of item counts being in the vault list, like here --

Let me know so I can pass along the feature request! Thank you for the valuable feedback – we really appreciate it. 🤗

Thanks, all sorted now.

Yes I mean the item count as in 1Password 7, see attached,

Over many years of 1Password use I have got in the habit of glancing at the All Items number on each device as a quick check that everything is in sync....it hasn't aways been.

@mikebore @kaitlyn

I can see the item count also being very useful! Please bring it back.

@mikebore – Totally, that makes perfect sense to me. I'll pass the feedback along. Thanks for sharing it with me. :)

ref: dev/projects/customer-feature-requests#843

@gussic – Sorry, I didn't see your comment before I hit "post" on my last one! Thanks for chiming in with your feedback as well. It's much appreciated.

@Kaitlyn random question - how do you get the 1P8 EA to show 'Categories' like it did before - i.e. Logins, Credit Cards, Documents etc? These all used to be in the sidebar, and were very useful.

@gussic – Sure thing! You can access all of your categories by clicking "All Categories" in the screenshot below.

Let me know if you have any trouble. I'm glad to help. :)

@kaitlyn Thank you - I can see that :)

Is there a way to get it to display permanently on the sidebar? It isn't a great user experience to have scroll to the top and click a drop down list to then select the category you want, find the item, then go back up to a dropdown list select the next category and so on. It seems like a huge reversion in usability and number of clicks?

I agree with @gussic ...this is a retrograde step in usability, with no obvious benefit. The sidebar where the Categories used to appear is now a big empty space (on my setup) so not being used for anything else.