Password Manager: Saving and Restoring Logins
1Password uses a unique approach to managing your passwords, integrating directly into your web browser. 1Password can tell when you log into a new site, and it offers to save the login for using in any of your browsers later. Your sensitive data is stored in a Login item, which you can recall with a single click or keystroke. In this section, you will learn how to save new Logins and use them to quickly log into websites.
Browser Integration
After installing 1Password, a new icon labeled “1P” will appear in your browser toolbar(s). Clicking this icon reveals many of 1Password’s features, which include Fill Login, the Strong Password Generator, and the Go & Fill menu.
Saving a Login
To save a new Login to 1Password, follow these steps:
- Visit the login page of a site
- Enter your username and password and login like normal
- 1Password will automatically detect that this is a login form and prompt you at the top of the browser window to save it:
This Autosave window will appear whenever a unique password is detected for a site. If you have two accounts on one site that use the same password, you can still make this window appear by selecting Save Login from the 1Password toolbar icon menu before you click to log in.
The Autosave behavior can be inverted by holding the Option key when submitting a 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.
Login Quickly and Securely with 1Password
1Password offers a few different ways to log into your sites, depending on your preference for using a mouse or a keyboard. Here are the steps for each method:
Login with 1Password’s browser button
- Visit one of your login sites, such as gmail.com
- Select the Fill Login option from the 1Password toolbar menu
- If you have just one Login saved for the site, the first menu option will be Login with -Site Name-. Select it to automatically fill your login details into the page and log in.
Power user tip: You can also quickly invoke this menu using the ⌘\ keyboard shortcut.
In this way, 1Password makes it extraordinarily simple to maintain multiple Logins for a single site.
Faster Login: Using Autosubmit (Optional)
You can use 1Password to automatically fill a Login and get you into the site in one fell swoop, saving even more time. To do so, check the Autosubmit option from the 1Password toolbar button.
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 Login in the main 1Password application.
Even Faster Login: Go & Fill
1Password’s Go & Fill is the fastest way to automatically open a new site and immediately log in, all with just a couple clicks or keyboard strokes! This feature 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 in the Dock.
1-Click Bookmarks
1Password can create what we like to call 1-Click Bookmarks, which are just what they sound like: a link you add to your browser’s bookmarks bar or menu that takes you straight to a site and logs you in. To create one of these little gems of login goodness, just drag any login from the 1Password window to your browser’s bookmarks bar. You can even drag logins to the desktop to create a bookmark file that can be stored anywhere and double-clicked.
Another convenient way to access 1Password’s 1-Click bookmarks is to use our free AllBookmarks application. AllBookmarks adds an icon to the OS X menubar at the top of your screen. From there you can search for the site you want and select it with the keyboard or mouse. This will automatically take you to the site and log you in, just like the Go & Fill feature.