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blgentry
2 years agoNew Contributor
Why does universal autofill not work everywhere?
Universal autofill should work in any context, anywhere. If I want to insert a password from a login into a text document, I should be able to autofill that. If I want to paste into a password prom...
blgentry
2 years agoNew Contributor
If you press command-backslash to fill your credentials into the password field inside of an app, and that app isn't recognized by 1Password then you'll see Quick Access appear instead. You can use Quick Access to select the appropriate login and then choose Autofill to fill that login.
With Kitty, quick access does not come up when pressing command-\ . In other apps, that does happen as you said. However, autofill does not work in any generic app. It doesn't work in a text editor, nor in Alacritty. This is confusing for the end user.
I don't buy that "this is for security". What is the security implication here? That I'm going to accidentally press the hot key and accidentally fill this in to a chat application or something? If I press the key, I want the action to actually occur. Particularly if I pressed the hot key and selected something, and chose and action to be performed. What sense does it make to allow all of that and then just do nothing when the action is selected? Silent failures are not user friendly.
Please don't get my tone wrong. I'm a HUGE 1password fan boy. I can't stop talking about it. I find 1pass to mostly be quite friendly, well designed, and easy to use. But this particular behavior really needs to be changed.
I'm probably an outlier here, as I use terminal apps a lot and I have quite a few passwords that I would like to fill inside of terminal apps. I'm mostly typing them now and occasionally using quick access, select,
Thanks for reading,
Brian.