Hi @gdhnz,
Thanks so much for trying out 1Password 8 Early Access!
Something seems off, 1Password 8 launches at login for me. Could you provide detail on what version of macOS you are running?
On the issue with 1Password in the browser, it sounds like these two issues are related. The main window appears only so you can unlock 1Password once and have it unlocked in each browser and the main app. I can see why this may be a bit jarring, if you didn't expect it. We can definitely make this process more smooth, if you have a device with Touch ID or Apple Watch unlock support I think we already do a great job there (you just see the prompt from macOS to unlock 1Password).
The biggest difference between the experience of 1Password 7 & 1Password 8 in this respect is that 1Password 7 would show a smaller window when you needed to type in your password to unlock 1Password. Both apps would have the app running in the background, I agree that we we could increase the polish here. I have reported this internally so our team can make this a better process.
On how long will 1Password 7 still work, I don't know that, currently you can still run very old versions of 1Password (pre-1Password 7) and they work with some caveats (for features Apple removed from modern versions of macOS). 1Password 7 is designed to work on Big Sur & works perfectly on Monterey I imagine 1Password 7 will still work for quite a while. We are actively working on improving 1Password 8, so hopefully we won't need to ask this question to far into the future because of how great 1Password 8 will be when we release it fully.
ref: dev/core/core#9302