Password Manager: Saving and Restoring Web Forms
1Password uses a unique approach to managing your passwords, integrating directly into your web browser. Your sensitive data is stored in a Web Form, which you can recall with just a click. In this section, you will learn how to save new Web Forms and use them to quickly log into websites.
Browser Integration
After installing 1Password, a new 1P icon will appear in your browser toolbar like the one shown here:
Clicking on the toolbar icon will reveal 1Password’s features:
Saving a Web Form
To save a new Web Form to 1Password, go to the login page of any website where you have an account. Enter your username and password as you typically do. When you click the button to submit the form and log you into the site, 1Password will automatically detect that this is a login form and prompt you to save it. In our example, we’ll use Gmail:
This is the Autosave feature, which can be configured in 1Password’s Preferences. The Autosave window will appear whenever a unique password is detected for the current site. If you have two accounts on one site that use the same password, you can still make this window appear by selecting Save Form from the 1P toolbar icon menu.
The Autosave behavior can be inverted by holding the Option key when submitting a login form: if Autosave is enabled, holding down the Option key will suppress the window; if Autosave is disabled, holding down the Option key will cause the window to appear.
Using a Saved Web Form
The next time you visit Gmail, select Restore Form from the 1P toolbar menu:
Selecting the saved Web Form will automatically fill your login details. You can also quickly invoke this menu using the ⌘-\ keyboard shortcut.
In this way, 1Password makes it extraordinarily simple to maintain multiple Web Forms for a single site.
Faster Login: Using Autosubmit (Optional)
After restoring a Web Form you can automatically submit the form to save even more time. To do so, check the Autosubmit option on the 1P toolbar menu:
Some sites will not work well with Autosubmit (for example, sites with a CAPTCHA on the login screen). In these cases, you can disable Autosubmit for specific forms by editing the Web Form in the main 1Password application.
Even Faster Login: Go & Fill
Unless you are already at a login screen, navigating to a website and finding the login form can take longer than entering the login details. You can use 1Password’s Go & Fill feature to greatly speed things up.
Go & Fill will automatically take you to the site, fill the form, and optionally submit the form, all with a single click!
Go & Fill is accessible from within the 1Password application, as well as from the 1Password Dock icon:
Note that the 1Password application must be running in order to see the Go & Fill menu item.
Another convenient way to access 1Password’s 1Click bookmarks is to use the free AllBookmarks application which adds a new icon to the menubar:
Simply search for the site you want and select it with the keyboard or mouse and you will automatically be taken to the site, the form filled, and optionally automatically submitted.