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# Password Manager

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. Clicking this icon reveals many of 1Password’s features, which include Fill Login, the Strong Password Generator, and the Go & Fill menu. Let’s get started with saving a few Logins, then using them to log back into websites.

## Save a Login to 1Password

To save a new Login to 1Password, follow these steps:

1. Visit the login page of a site
2. Enter your username and password and login like normal
3. Hit Return to submit the form and log in—1Password will automatically detect that this is a login form and prompt you to save it:

This Autosave window will appear whenever a unique password is detected for a site. If you have two (or more) accounts on one site that use the same password, you can still make this window appear and save multiple Logins for the same site. Simply fill in the credentials for the second (or third, or fourth…) login, but before hitting Return to log in, mouse to the 1P browser button and choose Save Login to manually save a new Login entry.

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.

### A word about security

Note that we strongly recommend against the practice of using the same password for multiple accounts across websites, and especially not two accounts at the same site. This practice poses a significant security risk, and doubly so if you are not using our Strong Password Manager yet, and only using plain-language words or other information like your birthday or anniversary for passwords. These types of passwords are very easy for malicious hackers to guess or possibly even look up on the Internet, and they can also be easily cracked by password guessing software.

## 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:

### 1. Login with 1Password’s browser button

1. Visit one of your login sites, such as gmail.com
2. Mouse to the 1P button in your browser and Select the Login with… (pictured here) option that includes the name of the site

This automatically fill your credentials into the username and password fields and submits the login form.

If you have multiple Logins for a site, you will instead see a Fill Login option at the top of the 1P button menu, which contains a list of all your Logins for the site (pictured above). Click one and it will be filled and auto-submitted just like in the steps above.

Power user tip: If you have a single Login for a site, you can fill it more quickly by using the ⌘\ keyboard shortcut. If you have multiple Logins for the site, you will see a popup menu listing them all. You can then arrow or mouse to the one you want, then hit Return or click on it to fill it into the form.

In this way, 1Password makes it extraordinarily simple to not only save multiple Logins for a site, but to use any Login to quickly get back in.

### 2. Login faster: 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.

### 3. Login the fastest: 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 and the data file be unlocked in order to see the Go & Fill menu in the Dock. There are other cool ways to use Go & Fill, too.

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