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Stop requring masterpass after every restart.
I find it a bit cumbersome and annoying that I have to use my master pass every time I restart my home computer and restart the browser (if I'm not using the desktop app).
Given I have to do this ...
If say I want to login to an online account.
The intended workflow is different to what you describe for yourself. You're using 1Password as starter and library of browser bookmarks/favorites, but that's not the intended way. Do it differently:
Prerequisites:
- download and install the desktop app and let it start on Windows startup. Log in once and stay logged in during your Windows session
- install the browser plugin and configure it to integrate with the 1Password app. This way it adopts the login of the desktop app.
- for each of your websites you visit regularly, with or without login, create a bookmark/favorite within your browser (Chrome or whatever). If you want to visit some site, passworded or not, use its bookmark and not 1Password to open it.
- in 1password, for each of your websites with a login, make sure you have a "login" item that has these 3 fields: a username, a password and the URL of the website.
How to login to some website:
- open the website with the browser bookmark. Not from within 1Password. If it is a website with a login, you're now presented with the login page.
- in the username input field, you will notice a drop down entry with the 1Password item the 1password browser plugin found for that website. You don't search, 1Password just finds the entry. Usually, you click on that drop down entry, the browser plugin autofills username and password, and you click the login button. Then you're logged in.
- this autosearch and autofill works for about 90% of all websites. It requires 3 clicks to login. 1st click: choose website from browser bookmark. 2nd click: click on the automatically appeared drop down entry with the matching 1Password entry to autofill. 3rd click: login button.
You don't need to search for an entry in 1Password to login. The browser plugin automatically searches and proposes item candidates valid for login. Usually, you just choose the one that was found or perhaps between 2 alternatives. Only if it doesn't find an entry, you need to search manually. But in this case, you need to just correct website URL in the 1password entry to match the website in the browser.
