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When to use Quick Access vs browser extension
I recently realized that there are two different ways of searching 1Password v8 in the browser: you can bring up Quick Access or you can bring up the browser extension's UI.
In v7 I didn't think o...
skatch Because I think the developers don't communicate effectively to one another, let alone the customer-base (in spite of the beta-tesing programme). It's evident in the removal of functionality and the bugs in 1Password 8 ...according to Agilebits, the 'best 1Password yet' ...that's deluded, it's not even ready for release.
The Safari extension is the nearest approximation to 1P Mini in 1P8, but is no replacement: it suffers from being positionally tied to the toolbar button resulting in the obstruction of web content and it cannot be resized — furthermore, the text-size and fixed column-width of the Suggestions list results in one being unable to differentiate items with similar names without checking the detailed view of each one.
In terms of search, you are not overthinking it at all — the search algorithms work differently, with different results — that's confusing.
I cannot help with which one is most helpful as 1Password 8 is so dysfunctional at this point that I've reverted to version 7.
