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Former Member
4 years ago1Password Hijacks Focus?
Got a weird issue here:
Whenever I open a tab to a site that needs a login, for example banking, if the 1Password app is open, it hijacks the focus, i.e. I can see the Mac toolbar switch from Fire...
Former Member
4 years agoSeeing this as well. I had done a search and posted about it in the beta forum where someone described similar issues:
I'm encountering this on macOS 1Password 8.8.0 (80800203 Production channel), not Beta channel. But maybe some more details may help?
I definitely encountered and could reproduce it when browsing, which you can imagine caused issues when working in things like Google Docs :) So, I've disabled the browser extensions for the time being in Safari (v2.3.7) and Edge, and it seems to have resolved itself.
The behavior is:
- The 1Password application pulled focus occasionally OR a few seconds after I'd return focus to the browser OR a few seconds after switching tabs. (That last one about tab switching isn't reliably reproduced, but seemed to be the behavior.)
- If I quit the 1Password app entirely, it would start back up when it attempted to pull focus.
- If I X'd out of the 1Password main window, 1Password would still grab focus, but there would be no window, obviously.
- I noticed one time the search field was focused, so I thought that perhaps this caused it; I unfocused it, alt-tab'd back over to my browser, but a few moments later… bam, 1Password application grabbed focus again, but the search field wasn't focused. So, seemed coincidental.
- A restart today did nothing.
I don't know offhand how long this has been going on, but for whatever reason today the issue was noticeable enough that I came hunting for a solution, and found this thread in the beta forum describing a really similar issue.
I don't think it was happening prior to prod 8.8.0, however. I only recently updated a few days ago and something like this I'd definitely notice if it had been, like, weeks.
Hope this may help pinpoint what's happening! I've been using 1Password since v2 or 3 and love it and depend on it. I haven't installed the new betas to see if it's resolved there; that will be my next step. Fingers crossed. Either way, thank you!